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Chapter 22: Crisis, Politics, Colonized Peoples
First Nations and Métis in the 1930s
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From: Capitalism and Colonialism
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This chapter examines how during the 1930s Indigenous Peoples suffered enormous poverty, disease and tuberculosis, coercive laws and intensified efforts at assimilation through institutions such as Residential Schools.
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Bryan D. Palmer
Bryan D. Palmer is Professor Emeritus and former Canada Research Chair, Canadian Studies, Trent University, Peterborough, Canada. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, former editor of Labour/Le Travail, and has published extensively on the history of labour and the revolutionary left. Among his many books are Canada’s 1960s and the co-authored Toronto's Poor: A Rebellious History. In the fall of 2024 he published Colonialism and Capitalism: Canada's Origins 1500–1890.
