1. Some thoughts on John A. Macdonald & famine relief inspired by James Daschuk's brilliant Clearing the Plains: http://www.amazon.ca/Clearing-Plains-Politics-Starvation-Aboriginal/dp/0889772967 …
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8. Daschuck: "For years, gov't officials withheld food from aboriginal people until they moved to their appointed reserves..."
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9. "...forcing them to trade freedom for rations. Once on reserves, food placed in ration houses was withheld for so long that much of..."
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