Metis and the medicine line : creating a border and dividing a people
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- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2015
- Author
- Hogue, Michel
- Publisher
- Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada : University of Regina Press
- Call Number
- 08.1 H65m
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- Author
- Hogue, Michel
- Publisher
- Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada : University of Regina Press
- Published Date
- 2015
- Physical Description
- ix, 328 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits
- Abstract
- Metis and the Medicine Line is a sprawling, ambitious look at how national borders and notions of race were created and manipulated to unlock access to indigenous lands. It is also an intimate story of individuals and families, brought vividly to life by history writing at its best. It begins with the emergence of the Plains Metis and ends with the fracturing of their communities as the Canada-U. S. border was enforced. It also explores the borderland world of the Northern Plains, where an astonishing diversity of people met and mingled: Blackfoot, Cree, Gros Ventre, Lakota, Dakota, Nez Perce, Assiniboine, Anishinaabes, Metis, Europeans, Canadians, Americans, soldiers, police, settlers, farmers, hunters, traders, bureaucrats. In examining the battles that emerged over who belonged on what side of the border, Hogue disputes Canada's peaceful settlement story of the Prairie West and challenges familiar bromides about the "world's longest undefended border. (From U of R Press website)
- Contents
- Emergence : creating a Metis borderland -- Exchange : trade, sovereignty, and the forty-ninth parallel -- Belonging : land, treaties, and the boundaries of race -- Resistance : dismantling Plains Metis borderland settlements, 1879-1885 -- Exile : scrip and enrollment commissions and the shifting boundaries of belonging, 1885-1920.
- ISBN
- 9780889773806
- Accession Number
- P2020-1
- Call Number
- 08.1 H65m
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- Summary on University of Regina Press website
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