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Metis and the medicine line : creating a border and dividing a people

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  • Author: Hogue, Michel
    Date:
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    2015
    Summary:

    Metis and the Medicine Line tells the remarkable story of the Plains Metis and the violent birth of the Canada/U.S. border.

    Contents:
    • Introduction: Borders and belonging
    • 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.
    Genre:
    History and geography, Canadian nonfiction, Indigenous materials
    Subject(s): Canada, Western | Ethnic identity | Government relations | Great Plains | History | Métis
    Original Publisher: Regina, University of Regina Press
    Language(s): English