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A Line of Blood and Dirt - Creating the Canada-United States Border across Indigenous Lands (Hardcover)
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A Line of Blood and Dirt - Creating the Canada-United States Border across Indigenous Lands (Hardcover)
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The untold history of the multiracial making of the border between
Canada and the United States. Often described as the longest
undefended border in the world, the Canada-United States border was
born in blood, conflict, and uncertainty. At the end of the
American Revolution, Britain and the United States imagined a
future for each of their nations that stretched across a continent.
They signed treaties with one another dividing lands neither
country could map, much less control. A century and a half later,
they had largely fulfilled those earlier ambitions. Both countries
had built nations that stretched from the Atlantic to the Pacific
and had created an expansive international border that restricted
movement. The vision that seemed so clear in the minds of diplomats
and politicians was never so well-defined on the ground. As A Line
of Blood and Dirt argues, both countries built their border across
Indigenous lands using hunger, violence, and coercion to displace
existing communities and to disrupt their ideas of territory and
belonging. Drawing on oral histories, map visualizations, and
archival sources, Benjamin Hoy reveals the role Indigenous people
played in the development of the international boundary, as well as
the impact the border had on Indigenous people, European settlers,
Chinese migrants, and African Americans. Unable to prevent movement
at the border's physical location for over a century, Canada and
the United States instead found ways to project fear across
international lines. Bringing together the histories of tribes,
immigration, economics, and the relationship of neighboring
nations, A Line of Blood and Dirt offers a new history of
Indigenous peoples and the borderland.
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