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The Birchbark House
by Louise Erdrich
Hyperion Books for Children
1999

And I forgot to mention that this is the start of a five book series, though the book stands quite perfectly on its own.

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I mention "Clearing the Plains: Disease, Politics of Starvation, and the Loss of Aboriginal Life" by James Daschuk, a 2013 book which as the description on goodreads says: "examines the roles that Old World diseases, climate, and, most disturbingly, Canadian politics—the politics of ethnocide—played in the deaths and subjugation of thousands of aboriginal people in the realization of Sir John A. Macdonald’s 'National Dream'."

Though I would add that that while Macdonald was a guiding force behind this at first, the practices laid down at the birth of the country are shamefully in place to this very day.

(There will be a review coming and most likely my fellow buddy reader Shawn the Book Maniac will have some thoughts worth tuning in for.)

(Video #319)