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0889772967 azw3 The award-winning book about how Canadas first prime minister starved Indigenous peoples in the pursuit of nationhood Revealing how Canada's first Prime Minister used a policy of starvation against Indigenous people to clear the way for settlement, the multiple award-winning Clearing the Plains sparked widespread debate about genocide in Canada. In arresting, but harrowing, prose, James Daschuk examines the roles that Old World diseases, climate, and, most disturbingly, Canadian politicsthe politics of ethnocideplayed in the deaths and subjugation of thousands of Indigenous people in the realization of Sir John A. Macdonalds "National Dream." It was a dream that came at great expense: the present disparity in health and economic well-being between Indigenous and non-Indigenous populations, and the lingering racism and misunderstanding that permeates the national consciousness to this day. This new edition of Read more