A review by enbylievable
Plundering the North: A History of Settler Colonialism, Corporate Welfare, and Food Insecurity by Travis Hay, Kristin Burnett

5.0

The Dargo plot twist really got me. This timeline of the Hudson's Bay Company and later the North West Company and Northern Store, as well as different initiatives like the Food Mail Program and Nutrition North Canada, is extremely crushable. This book expertly defines the ways in which neoliberal and capitalist pursuits of profit have been nefariously enmeshed with settler colonial schemes in order to inflict a monopolistic captive market on Indigenous peoples living in remote northern communities. I'd recommend this book to anyone who was interested in extractive histories of Canadian federal Indian policy, the impacts of manufactured food insecurity on Indigenous health and wellness, and the true motivations behind Canada's subsidization of food programming and the Northern Store.