Beneath the Backbone of the World: Blackfoot People and the North American Borderlands, 1720-1877

by Ryan Hall

Book Overview

For the better part of two centuries, between 1720 and 1877, the Blackfoot (Niitsitapi) people controlled a vast region of what is now the U.S. and Canadian Great Plains. As one of the most expansive and powerful Indigenous groups on the continent, they dominated the northern imperial borderlands of North America. The Blackfoot maintained their control even as their homeland became the site of intense competition between white fur traders, frequent...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1469655152
• ISBN13: 9781469655154
• Release Date: April 2020
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 2.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"