The line which separates : race, gender, and the making of the Alberta-Montana borderlands
Blackfoot country was a key site of Canadian and American efforts to shape their nations and national identities. This book explores the uneven way in which the borderlands were superimposed on Blackfoot country in order to divide a previously cohesive region in the late nineteenth century
Print Book, English, ©2005
University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, ©2005
History
xxiii, 236 pages : maps ; 23 cm.
9780803283084, 9780803232372, 9780888644343, 0803283083, 0803232373, 0888644345
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From Blackfoot country to borderlands
Troublesome topography : mapping the West in the nineteenth century
"Brought within reasonable distance" : managing the West, proving the border
"Their own country" : drawing lines in Blackfoot territory
"Bringing them more prominently into notice" : managing Aboriginal peoples in the borderlands
"A land where there is room for all" : immigration, nation building, and nonaboriginal communities in the borderlands
"I must have been the discoverer" : White women's perceptions of life in the borderlands
Just "ink on a map?"