Metis and the Medicine Line

Creating a Border and Dividing a People

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ID19987746
AuthorsMichel Hogue (0000-0002-2789-9146, corresponding author)
Year2015
Pages344
Publication date2015-04-06
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueMetis and the Medicine Line (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherUniversity of North Carolina Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.5149/northcarolina/9781469621050.001.0001
OpenAlexW4253757314
Open LibraryOL28559435M
ISBN9781469621050
LanguageEN
Citations received20

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 the United States and Great Britain, the Metis emerged as a people with distinctive styles of speech, dress, and religious practice, and occupational identities forged in the intense rivalries of the fur and provisions trade. This book explores how, as fur trade societies waned and as state officials looked to establish clear lines separating the United States from Canada and Indians from non-Indians, these communities of mixed Indigenous and European ancestry were profoundly affected by the efforts of nation-states to divide and absorb the North American West

American west · Ethnology · Genealogy · Geography · Indigenous · Metis · Political science · Sociology · State (computer science) · Canadian Identity and History · Ecology · Gender Studies · History · Indigenous Studies and Ecology · Borderlands · canada · Ethnic identity · Ethnic relations · Government relations · Métis · Montana · Red river settlement · Social conditions · united states

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