At a time when Indigenous hunger and strife is gaining public attention in Canada, James Daschuk’s book Clearing the Plains: Disease, Politics of Starvation, and the Loss of Aboriginal Life provides a necessary glimpse into the issue’s deep-seated roots. Now a professor at University of Regina specializing historical Indigenous research, Daschuk has published a number of works regarding the health of First Nations peoples of the Canadian Plains. Compiled as part of his doctoral research, Clearing the Plains succinctly consolidates a breadth of ostensibly buried Canadian historical literature to reveal the true nature of Canada's Midwest settlement, while depicting monopolization’s devastating effects on marginalized populations in the process.  

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• Hiebert, B. C., (2025), "Clearing the Plains: Disease, Politics of Starvation, and the Loss of Aboriginal Life", HSSCommons: (DOI: 10.15353/cfs-rcea.v1i2.51)

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1. First Nations
2. Great Plains
3. Indigenous people

Original publication: Hiebert, Bradley C. "Clearing the Plains: Disease, Politics of Starvation, and the Loss of Aboriginal Life." Canadian Food Studies / La Revue canadienne des études sur l'alimentation, vol. 1, no. 2, 2014, pp. 20-22. DOI: 10.15353/cfs-rcea.v1i2.51. This material has been re-published in an unmodified form on the Canadian HSS Commons with the permission of Canadian Food Studies / La Revue canadienne des études sur l'alimentation. Copyright © the author(s). Work published in CFS/RCÉA prior to and including Vol. 8, No. 3 (2021) is licensed under the Creative Commons CC BY license. Work published in Vol. 8, No. 4 (2021) and after is licensed under the Creative Commons CC BY-SA license. For details, see creativecommons.org/licenses/.