"A revisionist history of epidemic disease as experienced by northern Indigenous peoples in present day Canada's Yukon and Northwest Territories between 1860 and 1940. Liza Piper connects the history of epidemics in northern North America to persistent health disparities arising from settler colonialism"--

Liza Piper is Professor of History at the University of Alberta whose previous work includes The Industrial Transformation of Subarctic Canada (2009).

1. Introduction; 2. When scarlet fever came to this country; 3. Colonial motifs and medicine; 4. The gold rush and after; 5. Infrastructures of extraction, sanitation, and care; 6. Race, gender, and control; 7. Experiences of influenza; 8. Colonial ecologies; 9. A smouldering fire; 10. Epilogue and conclusions; Appendix: Cause of death database.