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 spatial and human relationships in the borderlands in their own terms.
The debate is often cast in terms of Canada’s failure to recognize the 1794 Jay Treaty’s confirmation of Native rights to transport goods into Canada, but ultimately the issue concerns the larger struggle of First Nations to force recognition of their people’s rights to move freely across the border in search of economic and social independence.
- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 307-340) and index
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- 971.3004/97
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- 22
- General Note
- Proceedings of a workshop held at University of Western Ontario, London, Ont., Feb. 11-12, 2005 Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
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- 9781554580040 9781554580972
- LCCN
- E78.G7
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- L46 2008eb
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- 1 electronic text (xxiii, 351 p.)
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- Canada
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Table of Contents
- Contents 8
- List of Illustrations and Maps 10
- Acknowledgements 12
- "Drawing/Erasing the Border" 13
- Introduction 14
- 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 26
- 2. Cross-border Treaty-signers: The Anishnaabeg of the Lake Huron Borderlands 46
- 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 68
- 4. The Anishinabeg and Métis in the Sault Ste. Marie Borderlands: Confronting a Line Drawn upon the Water 90
- 5. In the Shadow of the Thumping Drum: The Sault Métis—The People In-Between 110
- 6. "Those freebooters would shoot me like a dog": American Terrorists and Homeland Security in the Journals of Ezhaaswe (William A. Elias [1856–1929]) 140
- 7. Shifting Boundaries and the Baldoon Mysteries 156
- 8. The Baldoon Settlement: Rethinking Sustainability 176
- 9. Nativism's Bastard: Neolin, Tenskwatawa, and the Anishinabeg Methodist Movement 200
- 10. Borders Within: Anthropology and the Six Nations of the Grand River 216
- 11. The Grand General Indian Council of Ontario and Indian Status Legislation 230
- 12. "This is a pipe and I know hash": Louise Erdrich and the Lines Drawn upon the Waters and the Lands 244
- Notes 258
- Bibliography 332
- List of Contributors 364
- Index 366
- A 366
- B 367
- C 367
- D 368
- E 368
- F 369
- G 369
- H 369
- I 370
- J 370
- K 370
- L 370
- M 371
- N 372
- O 372
- P 372
- Q 373
- R 373
- S 373
- T 375
- U 375
- V 375
- W 375
- Y 376
- Z 376
