LEADER 04626nam 2200769Ia 450 001 9910784608503321 005 20230912143412.0 010 $a0-7735-6243-5 024 7 $a2027/heb03718 035 $a(CKB)1000000000397336 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000409681 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11264393 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000409681 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10349215 035 $a(PQKB)11514649 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000382218 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11230941 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000382218 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10392237 035 $a(PQKB)11780712 035 $a(CaBNvSL)slc00201044 035 $a(CaPaEBR)403857 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3331551 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10152526 035 $a(OCoLC)929122020 035 $a(dli)HEB03718 035 $a(MiU)MIU01000000000000005551553 035 $a(DE-B1597)654592 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780773562431 035 $a(VaAlCD)20.500.12592/g7zfkk 035 $a(schport)gibson_crkn/2009-12-01/2/403857 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3331551 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3246494 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000397336 100 $a19900214d1990 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aLost harvests$b[electronic resource] $ePrairie Indian reserve farmers and government policy /$fSarah Carter 210 $aMontreal $cMcGill-Queen's University Press$dc1990 215 $ax, 323 p., [12] p. of plates $cill., maps, ports. ;$d24 cm 225 1 $aMcGill-Queen's series in native and northern studies ;$v3 225 0$aMcGill-Queen's native and northern series ;$v3 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a0-7735-0999-2 311 $a0-7735-0755-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront Matter -- $tContents -- $tFigures -- $tPreface -- $tIntroduction -- $tTwo Solitudes: Myth and Reality of the Plains Indian and Agriculture -- $tThe ?Queen?s Bounty?: Government Response to Indian Agitation for Agricultural Assistance -- $tThe Home Farm Experiment -- $tAssault upon the ?Tribal? System: Government Policy after 1885 -- $tThe Pioneer Experience, Prairie Reserve Agriculture -- $tPrelude to Surrender, Severally and ?Peasant? Farming -- $tWithout a Leg to Stand On: Undermining Reserve -- $tAppendix One -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aDespite repeated requests for assistance from Plains Indians, the Canadian government provided very little help between 1874 and 1885, and what little they did give proved useless. Although drought, frost, and other natural phenomena contributed to the failure of early efforts, reserve farmers were determined to create an economy based on agriculture and to become independent of government regulations and the need for assistance. Officials in Ottawa, however, attributed setbacks not to economic or climatic conditions but to the Indians' character and traditions which, they claimed, made the Indians unsuited to agriculture. In the decade following 1885 government policies made farming virtually impossible for the Plains Indians. They were expected to subsist on one or two acres and were denied access to any improvements in technology: farmers had to sow seed by hand, harvest with scythes, and thresh with flails. After the turn of the century, the government encouraged land surrenders in order to make good agricultural land available to non-Indian settlers. This destroyed any chance the Plains Indians had of making agriculture a stable economic base. Through an examination of the relevant published literature and of archival sources in Ottawa, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta, Carter provides the first in-depth study of government policy, Indian responses, and the socio-economic condition of the reserve communities on the prairies in the post-treaty era. 410 0$aMcGill-Queen's native and northern series ;$v3. 517 3 $aPrairie Indian reserve farmers and government policy 606 $aIndian reservations$zPrairie Provinces$xHistory 606 $aIndians of North America$zPrairie Provinces$xAgriculture$xHistory 607 $aPrairie Provinces$xHistory$y19th century 615 0$aIndian reservations$xHistory. 615 0$aIndians of North America$xAgriculture$xHistory. 676 $a338.1/8712/08997 700 $aCarter$b Sarah$f1954-$0835472 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910784608503321 996 $aLost harvests$93225153 997 $aUNINA