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 politics-the
politics of ethnocide-played in the deaths and subjugation of
thousands of Indigenous people in the realization of Sir John A.
Macdonald's "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 Clearing the Plains
has a foreword by Pulitzer Prize winning author, Elizabeth Fenn, an
opening by Niigaanwewidam James Sinclair, and explanations of the
book's influence by leading Canadian historians. Called "one of the
most important books of the twenty-first century" by the Literary
Review of Canada, it was named a "Book of the Year" by The Globe
and Mail , Quill & Quire , the Writers' Trust, and won the Sir
John A. Macdonald Prize, among many others. " Clearing the Plains
is a tour de force that dismantles and destroys the view that
Canada has a special claim to humanity in its treatment of
indigenous peoples. Daschuk shows how infectious disease and
state-supported starvation combined to create a creeping,
relentless catastrophe that persists to the present day. The prose
is gripping, the analysis is incisive, and the narrative is so
chilling that it leaves its reader stunned and disturbed. For days
after reading it, I was unable to shake a profound sense of sorrow.
This is fearless, evidence-driven history at its finest."
-Elizabeth A. Fenn, author of Pox Americana "Required reading for
all Canadians." -Candace Savage, author of A Geography of Blood
"Clearly written, deeply researched, and properly contextualized
history...Essential reading for everyone interested in the history
of indigenous North America." -J.R. McNeill, author of Mosquito
Empires
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