CHAPTER 9. The Nadir of Indigenous Health, 1886–91

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Publisher’s Note ix
4. Bozhoo Indinawemaganidog: An Invitation to All Our Relations xi
5. Foreword xv
6. Introduction to the 2019 Edition xix
7. Introduction to the 2013 Edition xxiii
8. CHAPTER 1. Indigenous Health, Environment, and Disease before Europeans 1
9. CHAPTER 2. The Early Fur Trade: Territorial Dislocation and Disease 11
10. CHAPTER 3. Early Competition and the Extension of Trade and Disease, 1740–82 27
11. CHAPTER 4. Despair and Death during the Fur Trade Wars, 1783–1821 41
12. CHAPTER 5. Expansion of Settlement and Erosion of Health during the HBC Monopoly, 1821–69 59
13. CHAPTER 6. Canada, the Northwest, and the Treaty Period, 1869–76 79
14. CHAPTER 7. Treaties, Famine, and Epidemic Transition on the Plains, 1877–82 99
15. CHAPTER 8. Dominion Administration of Relief, 1883–85 127
16. CHAPTER 9. The Nadir of Indigenous Health, 1886–91 159
17. CONCLUSION 181
18. Maps 187
19. Acknowledgements 195
20. Critical Responses 199
21. Notes 237
22. Bibliography 293
23. Index 347