麻豆传媒AV

The author of a book on Canadian and aboriginal history will be in the Battlefords area next week.

Dr. James Daschuk, from the University of Regina, the author of Clearing the Plains: Disease, Politics of Starvation, and the Loss of Aboriginal Life, will be in the Battlefords and area Thursday May 8 and Friday May 9 talking about his work.

The book is published by University of Regina Press. At its website, the book is described as examining "the roles of 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.'"

Daschuk holds a PhD in history from the University of Manitoba and is assistant professor in the Faculty of Kinesiology and Health Studies at the University of Regina. He is also a researcher with the Saskatchewan Population Health and Evaluation Research Unit.

He will be speaking at Chief Little Pine School from 9 to 11:30 a.m. Thursday, at Chief Poundmaker School from 12:30 to 3 p.m., and then there is a meet and greet at Poundmaker Veterans' Hall from 5 to 8 p.m.

The following day he will speak at Cut Knife High School from 9 to 11:30 a.m., and then from 1 to 3:30 p.m. he will be at Sakewew High School.