Lost Harvests: Prairie Indian Reserve Farmers and Government Policy (McGill-Queen's Native and Northern Series)
By Sarah A. Carter.
Description
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, mad...
ISBN(s)
0773509992, 9780773509993, 9780773562431
