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In arresting, but harrowing, prose, James Daschuk examines the roles that Old World diseases, climate, and, most disturbingly, Canadian politics—the politics of ethnocide—played in the deaths and subjugation of thousands of Indigenous people in the realization of Sir John A. Macdonald’s “National Dream.” It was a dream that came at great expense: the present disparity in health and economic well-being between Indigenous and non-Indigenous populations, and the lingering racism and misunderstanding that permeates the national consciousness to this day.

In the fairly near future, all of human history is now stored on a single monolithic memory bank: Humanity's History Hard Drive. But that sucker is just about full. The all-powerful Council has tasked Rebecca Charytan and Zachy Hennessey - two apparently equipped workers from the Ministry of Memory - with wading through every single day in the calendar year, pitching two historic events from that date against each other to see which stays, and which gets deleted - FOREVER.