"Agriculture on Plains Indian reserves is generally thought to have failed because the Native peoples lacked either an interest in farming or an aptitude for it. In Lost Harvests Sarah Carter reveals that reserve residents were anxious to farm and expended considerable effort on cultivation; go...

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1. Verfasser:	Carter, Sarah, 1954- (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2019.
Ausgabe:	Second edition.
Schriftenreihe:	McGill-Queen's native and northern series ; 3.
Schlagworte:	1800-1899 Indians of North America > Agriculture > Prairie Provinces. Indians of North America > Land tenure > Prairie Provinces. Indians of North America > Prairie Provinces > Government relations. First Nations > Agriculture > Prairie Provinces. First Nations > Prairie Provinces > Government relations. Peuples autochtones > Terres > Provinces des Prairies. Premières Nations > Provinces des Prairies > Relations avec l'État. Indians of North America > Agriculture Indians of North America > Government relations Indians of North America > Land tenure Prairie Provinces > History > 19th century. Provinces des Prairies > Histoire > 19e siècle. Prairie Provinces Electronic books. History
Online-Zugang:	DE-862 DE-863
Zusammenfassung:	"Agriculture on Plains Indian reserves is generally thought to have failed because the Native peoples lacked either an interest in farming or an aptitude for it. In Lost Harvests Sarah Carter reveals that reserve residents were anxious to farm and expended considerable effort on cultivation; government policies, more than anything else, acted to undermine their success. 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, made the Indians unsuited to agriculture. In the decade following 1885 government policies made farming virtually impossible for the Plains Indians. They were expected to subsist on one or two acres and were denied access to any improvements in technology: farmers had to sow seed by hand, harvest with scythes, and thresh with flails. After the turn of the century, the government encouraged land surrenders in order to make good agricultural land available to non-Indian settlers. This destroyed any chance the Plains Indians had of making agriculture a stable economic base. Through an examination of the relevant published literature and of archival sources in Ottawa, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta, Carter provides the first in-depth study of government policy, Indian responses, and the socio-economic condition of the reserve communities on the prairies in the post-treaty era."--
Beschreibung:	1 online resource
Bibliographie:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:	0773557695 9780773557697