Open Word: Readings and Ideas
James Daschuk
Program, P.2365
- Identifier
- P.2365
- Type
- Literary readings
- Category
- Literary
- Date
- January 26, 2016
- Description
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In Clearing the Plains, 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 aboriginal people in pursuit of a ‘National Dream’. It was a dream that came at great expense: the present disparity in health and economic well-being between First Nations and non-Native populations, and the lingering racism and misunderstanding that permeates the national consciousness today.Wednesday, January 27, 2016, 7:00 p.m.
The Royal BC Museum, 675 Belleville Street