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Clearing the Plains: Disease, Politics of Starvation, and the Loss of Indigenous Life

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One of MacLean's 25 Most Important Books of the Last 25 Years

One of CBC's 30 Books On the Indigenous Experience in North America

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 po...