James Daschuk examines the roles that Old World diseases, climate, and Canadian politics--the politics of ethnocide--played in the deaths and subjugation of thousands of aboriginal people in the realization of Sir John A.Macdonald's "National Dream."
James Daschuk examines the roles that Old World diseases, climate, and Canadian politics--the politics of ethnocide--played in the deaths and subjugation of thousands of aboriginal people in the realization of Sir John A. Macdonald's "National Dream."
James Daschuk examines the roles that Old World diseases, climate, and Canadian politics--the politics of ethnocide--played in the deaths and subjugation of thousands of aboriginal people in the realization of Sir John A. Macdonald's "National Dream."
James Daschuk examines the roles that Old World diseases, climate, and Canadian politics--the politics of ethnocide--played in the deaths and subjugation of thousands of aboriginal people in the realization of Sir John A. Macdonald's "National Dream."
“Conquering the Passions” argues that encounters with North American Indians forced members of the educated elite on both sides of the Atlantic to think about cultural change or, to use their terms, the process through which savages became civilized. Recent historiography, which…
This dissertation looks at how and why American Indians developed veteran traditions integrating elements of their traditional cultures. Most previous studies of Native experiences in the armed forces focused on general studies on one particular war or centered on elite Native u…
This dissertation presents contemporary ethnographic information on the Xokleng (Laklanõ ) Indians, a southern Gê group that lives in the highlands of Santa Catarina, Brazil. It analyzes their contemporary social formations, political dynamics, and culture. In it, I argue that, …
This dissertation focuses on Quakers' efforts to convert Indians to Christianity and Native peoples' reactions to their endeavors. In the 17th and 18th centuries, the Lenape welcomed members of the Religious Society of Friends to their homeland. Both peoples' religious beliefs s…
