Metis and the Medicine Line: Creating a Border and Dividing a People

by Michel Hogue

Born of encounters between Indigenous women and Euro-American men in the first decades of the nineteenth century, the Plains Metis people occupied contentious geographic and cultural spaces. Living in a disputed area of the northern Plains inhabited by various Indigenous nations and claimed by both the United States and Great Britain, the Metis emerged as a people with distinctive styles of speech, dress, and religious practice, and occupational identities...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1469621053
• ISBN13: 9781469621050
• Release Date: April 2015
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.3"