ep 61 / MEDIA INDIGENA
Added 2017-05-07 01:49:03 +0000 UTCHow Canada's first Indigenous policy was founded on famine / Ep. 61
On this week's podcast, a break from our usual roundtable, as we re-visit my 2014 interview with James Daschuk, author of Clearing the Plains: Disease, Politics of Starvation, and the Loss of Aboriginal Life.
Daschuk's award-winning history investigates the roles that disease, climate and politics played in the deaths and subjugation of thousands of Aboriginal people in what we now call Canada in the late nineteenth century. It’s a time when Canada’s first prime minister—John A. Macdonald—relentlessly pursued his so-called “National Dream,” a pursuit that coincided with the often nightmarish existence of first peoples on the Plains, resulting in what we might call Canada’s original Aboriginal policy—re-location via starvation.
Trust me, this discussion will leave most anyone re-thinking year one of Canada's past 150. A discussion I’m re-running not only because it’s amazing, but to help make the time needed for some fine-tuning of the show. (More on that another day, dear patron.)
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