By Sarah A. Carter
ISBN-10: 0773507558
ISBN-13: 9780773507555
Agriculture on Plains Indian reserves is usually inspiration to have failed as the local peoples lacked both an curiosity in farming or an inherent ability for it. In misplaced Harvests Sarah Carter finds that reserve citizens have been worried to farm and expended substantial attempt on cultivation; executive guidelines, greater than the rest, acted to undermine their good fortune. regardless of repeated requests for the aid of Plains Indians, the Canadian govt supplied little or no aid among 1874 and 1885, and what little they did supply proved dead. even if drought, frost, and different typical phenomena contributed to the failure of early efforts, reserve farmers have been made up our minds to create an financial system in response to agriculture and to turn into autonomous of presidency laws and the necessity for information. officers in Ottawa, besides the fact that, attributed setbacks to not fiscal or weather conditions yet to the Indians' personality and traditions which, they claimed, made the Indians unsuited to agriculture. within the decade following 1885 govt rules made farming nearly most unlikely for the Plains Indians. They have been anticipated to subsist on one or acres and have been denied entry to any advancements in know-how: farmers needed to sow seed via hand, harvest with scythes, and thresh with flails. After the flip of the century, the govt inspired land surrenders for you to make sturdy agricultural land on hand to non-Indian settlers. This destroyed any likelihood the Plains Indians had of creating agriculture a good monetary base. via an exam of the suitable released literature and of archival assets in Ottawa, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta, Carter presents the 1st in-depth research of presidency coverage, Indian responses, and the socio-economic of the reserve groups at the prairies within the post-treaty period.
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20 Agriculture as an occupation was not subservient to the world of business, industry, medicine, or law but was the worthiest of employments, not just for Indians, but for all who would choose to settle the prairie and help create a vast agrarian empire. 21 This ideology was propagated 2o Lost Harvests through schools, newspapers, agrarian periodicals, railway promotional literature, agricultural exhibitions, women's institutes, homemakers clubs, and other farm organizations. "22 The country life ideology endowed the land with an almost mystical power to transform and elevate, even the lowest or weakest of men.
When they were compelled by a change in their circumstances to adopt a sedentary life, and follow the pursuits of agriculture, there arose an inequality among the people from the fact that the chiefs became landed proprietors and employed those under them as laborers. 20 Agriculture as an occupation was not subservient to the world of business, industry, medicine, or law but was the worthiest of employments, not just for Indians, but for all who would choose to settle the prairie and help create a vast agrarian empire.
On an incessant quest for food, Indians were always subject to feast or famine. 13 Also seen as a cause of poverty and starvation was the Indians' willingness to share the spoils of a hunt with neighbours. To the Victorian-Canadian observer, these practices were evidence of a listless, lethargic approach to life. Indolence, the twin of improvidence, was seen as another unfortunate characteristic of the Indians. "14 The Indians' reluctance to work was viewed as a cause of their inability to bring the natural world within their control and ownership.
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