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Metis and the medicine line : creating a border and dividing a people /
Born of encounters between Indigenous women and Euro-American men in the first decades of the nineteenth century, the Plains Metis people occupied contentious geographic and cultural spaces. Living in a disputed area of the northern Plains inhabited by various Indigenous Nations and claimed by both...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill :
The University of North Carolina Press,
[2015]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | David J. Weber series in the new borderlands history.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of 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.