Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-230) and index.
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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?"
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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Nations are made and unmade at their borders, and the forty-ninth parallel separating Montana and Alberta in the late nineteenth century was a pivotal Western site for both the United States and Canada. Blackfoot country was a key site of Canadian and American efforts to shape their nations and national identities. The region's landscape, aboriginal people, newcomers, railroads, and ongoing cross-border ties all challenged the governments' efforts to create, colonize, and nationalize the Alberta-Montana borderlands. The Line Which Separates makes an important and useful comparison between American and Canadian government policies and attitudes regarding race, gender, and homesteading. Drawing on a range of sources, from government maps and reports to oral testimony and personal papers, The Line Which Separates 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.
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Title
Line which separates.
International Standard Book Number
0803283083
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
National characteristics, American.
National characteristics, Canadian.
Sex role-- Northern boundary of the United States-- History-- 19th century.
Siksika Indians-- Social conditions-- 19th century.
Pieds-Noirs (Indiens)-- Conditions sociales-- 19e siècle.
Boundaries.
National characteristics, American.
National characteristics, Canadian.
Race relations.
Sex role.
Social conditions.
SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Anthropology-- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Minority Studies.
GEOGRAPHICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Alberta, Race relations.
Alberta, Social conditions, 19th century.
Canada, Boundaries, United States.
Montana, Race relations.
Montana, Social conditions, 19th century.
United States, Boundaries, Canada.
Alberta, Colonisation, Histoire.
Alberta, Conditions sociales, 19e siècle.
Alberta, Frontières, Montana, Histoire.
Montana, Colonisation, Histoire.
Montana, Conditions sociales, 19e siècle.
Montana, Frontières, Alberta, Histoire.
Alberta.
Canada.
Montana.
United States, Northern boundary of the United States.