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David G. McCrady, Living with Strangers: The Nineteenth-Century Sioux and the Canadian-American Borderlands Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2006, 168 pages. ISBN 9780803232501, $45.00 (hardcover).
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Many American historians define their topics, pursue their research, and write their books limited by a border mentality that halts their endeavours at the Rio Grande or the forty-ninth parallel. For many Native peoples, however, an international border is a recent phenomenon in their histories, an arbitrary and artificial line that cut across existing tribal spaces, even as it compelled new political arrangements. Understanding Abenaki, Assiniboine, Ojibwa, Blackfoot, or Metis history in the North (or Apache and Yaqui history in the South) requires historians to widen their focus, attempt to write histories...
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