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Lost Harvests : Prairie Indian Reserve Farmers and Government Policy

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP, 1993 - History - 323 pages
Despite repeated requests for assistance from Plains Indians, the Canadian government provided very little help between 1874 and 1885, and what little they did give proved useless. Although drought, frost, and other natural phenomena contributed to the failure of early efforts, reserve farmers were determined to create an economy based on agriculture and to become independent of government regulations and the need for assistance. Officials in Ottawa, however, attributed setbacks not to economic or climatic conditions but to the Indians' character and traditions which, they claimed, made the Indians unsuited to agriculture. In the decade following 1885 government policies made farming virtually impossible for the Plains Indians. They were expected to subsist on one or two acres and were denied access to any improvements in technology: farmers had to sow seed by hand, harvest with scythes, and thresh with flails. After the turn of the century, the government encouraged land surrenders in order to make good agricultural land available to non-Indian settlers. This destroyed any chance the Plains Indians had of making agriculture a stable economic base. Through an examination of the relevant published literature and of archival sources in Ottawa, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta, Carter provides the first in-depth study of government policy, Indian responses, and the socio-economic condition of the reserve communities on the prairies in the post-treaty era.
  

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Can't recommend enough .... Carter demolishes many of the myths of Canadian 'peaceful settlement' and nation-building vis-a-vis native peoples, treaties, and government 'benevolence'. Read full review

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Contents

Myth and Reality of
15
Government
50
The Home Farm Experiment
79
Govern
130
Prairie Reserve
159
Severalty and Peas
193
Undermining
237
Copyright

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About the author (1993)

The editors of this collection are academics, activists, and professional organizers. They share a common interest in the role of women, both in a historical and contemporary context.

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TitleLost Harvests : Prairie Indian Reserve Farmers and Government Policy
Volume 3 of McGill-Queen's native and northern series, ISSN 1181-7453
AuthorSarah Carter
Editionillustrated, reprint
PublisherMcGill-Queen's Press - MQUP, 1993
ISBN0773562435, 9780773562431
Length323 pages
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History / Native American
Political Science / Public Policy / General
Social Science / Ethnic Studies / Native American Studies
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