Reddit reviews Clearing the Plains: Disease, Politics of Starvation, and the Loss of Aboriginal Life (CPS)

Consider that residential schools led to the complete extermination of approximately 50 indigenous languages and associated near-complete or total loss of distinctive culture for about as many peoples.

Consider that the death rate at some residential schools (as high as 60%) compared to the death rates for children in white schools in the same area at the same time (5%) is actually comparable to the difference in the death rate rate compared between some of the Nazi extermination camps (35 - 90%) and regular camps for ethnic German citizens and Western PoWs (~3%).

Checklist:

• An intentional government policy aimed at cultural extermination.
  
  
• The carry-out of that government policy was uninterrupted even when the majority of children subjected to it died.
  
  
• Human medical experimentation was done on the children.
  
  
• Instances where the majority of the population subjected to the policy died.
  
  
• So they used mass graves because they died too quick to bother with individual burials.
  
  
• With the little children digging the graves of their own school friends knowing full-well they'll probably be next.
  
  
• And clever use of novel means to speed up mass extermination (biological warfare / gassing).
  
  The end result sure looks the same. There aren't many Jews in Europe. And there sure aren't many Snokomish or Penlatch people left -- every last one was exterminated.
  
  The numbers and the consequences sure look genocidal for certain periods, especially at the peak in the early 20th century.
  
  Clearing the Plains: Disease, Politics of Starvation, and the Loss of Aboriginal Life is a recent book that thoroughly details the means by which the Canadian state, in parallel to the American, used disease, geographic displacement, starvation, isolation, interment and the occasional bout of literal mass murder, to effectively depopulate much of the continent.

So its all about money, is it? Well, I could increase my wealth by stealing money, but I don't. One of the reasons that Canada became wealthy, is that it brutally stole wealth-creating lands from the Aboriginals. Read Clearing the Plains if you still don't understand that.
Obviously, returning some of the wealth is important, but the Liberals have promised something much more important than that, namely: "a total renewal of the relationship between Canada and indigenous peoples".

http://www.amazon.ca/Clearing-Plains-Politics-Starvation-Aboriginal/dp/0889772967

This is his recent work, and the one that won the book of the year award from the Canadian Historical Association.

http://www.amazon.com/Clearing-Plains-Politics-Starvation-Aboriginal/dp/0889772967

A book that may change your mind