David G. Mccrady

Living with Strangers (eBook, PDF)

The Nineteenth-Century Sioux and the Canadian-American Borderlands

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Produktbeschreibung

The story of the Sioux who moved into the Canadian-American borderlands in the later years of the nineteenth century is told in its entirety for the first time here. Previous histories have been divided by national boundaries and have focused on the famous personages involved, paying scant attention to how Native peoples on both sides of the border reacted to the arrival of the Sioux. Using material from archives across North America, Canadian and American government documents, Lakota winter counts, and oral history, Living with Strangers reveals how the nineteenth-century Sioux were a people of the borderlands. The Sioux made great tactical use of the Canada-United States boundary. They traded with the Metis of Canada-often in contraband goods such as arms and ammunition-and tried to get better prices from European traders by drawing the Hudson's Bay Company into competition with American traders. They opened negotiations with both Canadian and American officials to determine which government would accord them better treatment, and they used the boundary as a shield in times of warfare with the United States. Until now, the Canadian-American borderlands and the people who live there have remained a blind spot in Canadian and American nationalist historiographies. Living with Strangers takes readers beyond the traditional dichotomy of the Canadian and the American West and reveals significant and previously unknown strands in Sioux history.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nebraska
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2006
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780803253902
• Artikelnr.: 55972182

Autorenporträt

David G. McCrady is an independent historian living in Winnipeg.

Inhaltsangabe

CONTENTS
 List of Illustrationix
 Prefacexi
 A Note on Sioux
Groups and Leadersxv
1.Introduction:
Partitioning Sioux History1
2.From Contested Ground
to Borderlands, 1752-18628
3.The Dakota Conflict of 1862
and the Migration to the
Plains Borderlands17
4.The Migration of the Sioux
to the Milk River Country31
5.The Sioux, the Surveyors, and the
North-West Mounted Police, 1872-187449
6.The Great Sioux War, 1876-187761
7.The Lakotas and Métis
atWood Mountain, 1876-188176
8.The Failure of Peace
in Canada, 1878-188186
9.Overview: The Northern Borderlands103
 Notes115
 Bibliography145
 Index159