A look at how national borders and notions of race were created and manipulated to unlock access to indigenous lands. It is also an intimate story of individuals and families.
Publisher:Regina, Saskatchewan :University of Regina Press,2015.
Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-315) and index.
Formatted Contents Note: 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.