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Living with Strangers: The Nineteenth-Century Sioux and the Canadian-American Borderlands.

Publication: American Review of Canadian Studies
Publication Date: 22-SEP-07 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Living with Strangers: The Nineteenth-Century Sioux and the Canadian-American Borderlands.(Book review)

Article Excerpt
David G. McCrady, Living with Strangers: The Nineteenth-Century Sioux and the Canadian-American Borderlands. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2006. 192 pp. $45.00 cloth.

David G. McCrady's Living with Strangers initiates a historical analysis of Native North Americans in the Northern Plains prior to and during the formation of the national boundary separating the United States and Canada. As McCrady's book shows, the international boundary separated the two nations, but not the Native peoples who occupied that region. McCrady historicizes Sioux and Metis conceptions of the borderland and boundary line through his thorough study of intertribal diplomacy related to intertribal trade and Native relations with the colonizing nations. Through his study of the tribes' exploitation of the boundary for multiple purposes, we get a...

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