Metis and the Medicine Line
Title | Metis and the Medicine Line PDF eBook |
Author | Michel Hogue |
Publisher | UNC Press Books |
Pages | 341 |
Release | 2015-04-06 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1469621061 |
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. Michel Hogue 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. Grounded in extensive research in U.S. and Canadian archives, Hogue's account recenters historical discussions that have typically been confined within national boundaries and illuminates how Plains Indigenous peoples like the Metis were at the center of both the unexpected accommodations and the hidden history of violence that made the "world's longest undefended border."
La Michinn
Title | La Michinn PDF eBook |
Author | Lawrence J. Barkwell |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2018-06 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781927531150 |
Clearing the Plains
Title | Clearing the Plains PDF eBook |
Author | James William Daschuk |
Publisher | University of Regina Press |
Pages | 345 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0889772967 |
In arresting, but harrowing, prose, James Daschuk examines the roles that Old World diseases, climate, and, most disturbingly, Canadian politics--the politics of ethnocide--played in the deaths and subjugation of thousands of aboriginal people in the realization of Sir John A. Macdonald's "National Dream." It was a dream that came at great expense: the present disparity in health and economic well-being between First Nations and non-Native populations, and the lingering racism and misunderstanding that permeates the national consciousness to this day. " Clearing the Plains is a tour de force that dismantles and destroys the view that Canada has a special claim to humanity in its treatment of indigenous peoples. Daschuk shows how infectious disease and state-supported starvation combined to create a creeping, relentless catastrophe that persists to the present day. The prose is gripping, the analysis is incisive, and the narrative is so chilling that it leaves its reader stunned and disturbed. For days after reading it, I was unable to shake a profound sense of sorrow. This is fearless, evidence-driven history at its finest." -Elizabeth A. Fenn, author of Pox Americana "Required reading for all Canadians." -Candace Savage, author of A Geography of Blood "Clearly written, deeply researched, and properly contextualized history...Essential reading for everyone interested in the history of indigenous North America." -J.R. McNeill, author of Mosquito Empires
Medicines to help us
Title | Medicines to help us PDF eBook |
Author | Christi Belcourt |
Publisher | |
Pages | 80 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Medicinal plants |
ISBN | 9780920915790 |
The Medicine Line
Title | The Medicine Line PDF eBook |
Author | Beth LaDow |
Publisher | Psychology Press |
Pages | 298 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Blaine County (Mont.) |
ISBN | 9780415927642 |
The author explores the history of the border of Canada and Montana, 100 miles of the most desolate terrain in America, and the point where three nations were fated to come together in a contest for land, wealth, and ultimately survival. Illustrations.
Across the Medicine Line
Title | Across the Medicine Line PDF eBook |
Author | C. Frank Turner |
Publisher | McClelland & Stewart |
Pages | 296 |
Release | 1973 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN |
The epic confrontation between Sitting Bull and the North-West Mounted Police.
Metis
Title | Metis PDF eBook |
Author | Julia D. Harrison |
Publisher | |
Pages | 160 |
Release | 1985-09-01 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780295963006 |