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...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill :
The University of North Carolina Press,
[2015]
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Edición: | First edition. |
Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.