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Today, to complement @NiCHE_Canada's reading list on the #envhist of (settler) colonialism, here's a deep-cut thread: 10 more readings, each of which pairs well with one reading on our original list.
Haven't read our post yet? Bookmark this thread for later! 🤓 #cdnhist
Haven't read our post yet? Bookmark this thread for later! 🤓 #cdnhist
1) We recommended James Daschuk's Canadian bestseller Clearing the Plains.
Pair it with George Colpitts's Pemmican Empire, which examines food, imperialism/colonialism, and Indigenous-settler relations on the Prairies in the same era. cambridge.org/core/books/pem…
Pair it with George Colpitts's Pemmican Empire, which examines food, imperialism/colonialism, and Indigenous-settler relations on the Prairies in the same era. cambridge.org/core/books/pem…
2) We recommended Sarah Carter's Imperial Plots, a multiple award-winning history of Prairie women farmers and ranchers.
Pair it with Cheryl Troupe's dissertation on Métis women's food harvesting & land tenure in the Qu'Appelle Valley from 1850 to 1950. harvest.usask.ca/handle/10388/1…
Pair it with Cheryl Troupe's dissertation on Métis women's food harvesting & land tenure in the Qu'Appelle Valley from 1850 to 1950. harvest.usask.ca/handle/10388/1…
The government of Canada starved Indigenous People into accepting treaties — that it never lived up to — in order to get the railway built. #cdnhistory 
It gets worse.
The Liberal opposition of the day was not constructive, to say the least.
*Things I should've learned in school, but didn't No. 872,381*
I was today years old when I learned that seed money for Hudson's Bay Company (and therefore Canada as we know it) likely came from the trans-Atlantic slave trade. #CDNpoli #CDNhistory
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I was today years old when I learned that seed money for Hudson's Bay Company (and therefore Canada as we know it) likely came from the trans-Atlantic slave trade. #CDNpoli #CDNhistory
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Remember Prince Rupert from Grade 4 Canadian history?
Colonial governor?
Big-time shaper of Canada's political geography?
Guy they named Rupert's Land after?
Founder of the Hudson's Bay Company?
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Colonial governor?
Big-time shaper of Canada's political geography?
Guy they named Rupert's Land after?
Founder of the Hudson's Bay Company?
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Turns out Rupes was a pioneer of the early transatlantic slave trade!
In school they told me he was a renaissance man - soldier, art afficionado, entrepreneur, quite a character - but left out that he was an innovator and an early adopter in monetizing human misery!
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In school they told me he was a renaissance man - soldier, art afficionado, entrepreneur, quite a character - but left out that he was an innovator and an early adopter in monetizing human misery!
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