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Record Nr.

UNINA9910155224203321

Titolo

Lines drawn upon the water : First Nations and the Great Lakes borders and borderlands / / Karl S. Hele, editor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Waterloo, Ont., : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, c2008

ISBN

1-299-31315-9

1-55458-097-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (378 p.)

Collana

Aboriginal studies series

Altri autori (Persone)

HeleKarl S <1970-> (Karl Scott)

Disciplina

971.3004/97

Soggetti

Indians of North America - Great Lakes Region (North America) - History

Metis - Great Lakes Region (North America) - History

Water boundaries - Ontario

Water boundaries - United States

Canada Boundaries United States

United States Boundaries Canada

Great Lakes Region (North America) History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Proceedings of a conference held at University of Western Ontario, London, Ont., Feb. 11-12, 2005'.--LAC CIP t.p. verso.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; List of Illustrations and Maps; Acknowledgements; ""Drawing/Erasing the Border""; Introduction; 1. ""We have no spirit to celebrate with you the great [1893] Columbian Fair"": Aboriginal Peoples of the Great Lakes Respond to Canadian and United States Policies During the Nineteenth Century; 2. Cross-border Treaty-signers: The Anishnaabeg of the Lake Huron Borderlands; 3. From Intercolonial Messenger to ""Christian Indian"": The Flemish Bastard and the Mohawk Struggle for Independence from New France and Colonial New York in the Eastern Great Lakes Borderland, 1647-1687

4. The Anishinabeg and Métis in the Sault Ste. Marie Borderlands: Confronting a Line Drawn upon the Water5. In the Shadow of the Thumping Drum: The Sault Métis-The People In-Between; 6. ""Those freebooters would shoot me like a dog"": American Terrorists and Homeland Security in the Journals of Ezhaaswe (William A. Elias [1856-



1929]); 7. Shifting Boundaries and the Baldoon Mysteries; 8. The Baldoon Settlement: Rethinking Sustainability; 9. Nativism's Bastard: Neolin, Tenskwatawa, and the Anishinabeg Methodist Movement; 10. Borders Within: Anthropology and the Six Nations of the Grand River

11. The Grand General Indian Council of Ontario and Indian Status Legislation12. ""This is a pipe and I know hash"": Louise Erdrich and the Lines Drawn upon the Waters and the Lands; Notes; Bibliography; List of Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The First Nations who have lived in the Great Lakes watershed have been strongly influenced by the imposition of colonial and national boundaries there. The essays in Lines Drawn upon the Water examine the impact of the Canadian-American border on communities, with reference to national efforts to enforce the boundary and the determination of local groups to pursue their interests and define themselves. Although both governments regard the border as clearly defined, local communities continue to contest the artificial divisions imposed by the international boundary and define spatia