Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vi
3. Acknowledgements viii
4. Introduction x
5. 1. Indigenous Health, Environment, and Disease before Europeans 1
6. 2. The Early Fur Trade: Territorial Dislocation and Disease 11
7. 3. Early Competition and the Extension of Trade and Disease, 1740–82 27
8. 4. Despair and Death during the Fur Trade Wars, 1783–1821 41
9. 5. Expansion of Settlement and Erosion of Health during the HBC Monopoly, 1821–69 59
10. 6. Canada, the Northwest, and the Treaty Period, 1869–76 79
11. 7. Treaties, Famine, and Epidemic Transition on the Plains, 1877–82 99
12. 8. Dominion Administration of Relief, 1883–85 127
13. 9. The Nadir of Indigenous Health, 1886–91 159
14. Conclusion 181
15. Maps 187
16. Notes 195
17. Bibliography 251
18. Index 305
19. About the Author 321