Line of Blood and Dirt - Creating the Canada-United States Border Across Indigenous Lands

This book provides a history of the Canada-United States border from 1775 until 1939, highlighting the formation of each nation state, the role Indigenous people had in the development of the international boundary, and the impact the border had on Indigenous people, European settlers, Chinese migrants, and African Americans.

List of contents

• Acknowledgments


• Terminology


• Introduction


• Chapter 1 Building Borders


• Chapter 2 The Civil and Dakota War


• Chapter 3 New Countries, Old Problems


• Chapter 4 Borders of Stones, Guns, and Grass


• Chapter 5 Where it All Went Wrong


• Chapter 6 Borders of Salt and Rock


• Chapter 7 Blood and Bones


• Chapter 8 The Chaos of Control


• Chapter 9 Higher Than Sight Can Reach


• Chapter 10 The Borders of Everyday Life


• Epilogue


• Appendix


• Notes


• Bibliography


• Index

About the author

Benjamin Hoy is an assistant professor of history at University of Saskatchewan, where he directs the Historical GIS Lab.

Summary

This book provides a history of the Canada-United States border from 1775 until 1939, highlighting the formation of each nation state, the role Indigenous people had in the development of the international boundary, and the impact the border had on Indigenous people, European settlers, Chinese migrants, and African Americans.

Additional text

A marvellous easy-to-follow examination of the Canadian-American borderlands from the Great Lakes to the Pacific Ocean from the 1870s to the 1930s. It is a well-written and enjoyable narrative of how Canada and the United States created an international border across a landscape already filled with Indigenous borders....Throughout its history, the border comes more clearly into focus through its inconsistencies, impositions, contestations, and inequalities. What is clear is the centrality of Indigenous peoples to the development of the border. A Line of Blood and Dirt is...a must-read for anyone wanting to understand the stretch and limit of state power along a border and its impact on peoples.

Product details

• Authors: Benjamin Hoy, Benjamin (Assistant Professor of History Hoy
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.04.2021
• EAN: 9780197528693
• ISBN: 978-0-19-752869-3
• No. of pages: 344
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; USA, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, military history, HISTORY / Historical Geography, HISTORY / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877), HISTORY / Military / United States, HISTORY / United States / 19th Century, c 1800 to c 1900, Colonialism & imperialism, United States of America, USA, Colonialism and imperialism, History of the Americas, Battles & campaigns, Specific wars and campaigns, Historical Geography, c 1860 to c 1869, Civil wars, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / General