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The Line Which Separates - Race, Gender, and the Making of the Alberta-Montana Borderlands (Paperback)
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The Line Which Separates - Race, Gender, and the Making of the Alberta-Montana Borderlands (Paperback)
Series: Race and Ethnicity in the American West
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Nations are made and unmade at their borders, and the forty-ninth
parallel separating Montana and Alberta in the late nineteenth
century was a pivotal Western site for both the United States and
Canada. Blackfoot country was a key site of Canadian and American
efforts to shape their nations and national identities. The
region's landscape, aboriginal people, newcomers, railroads, and
ongoing cross-border ties all challenged the governments' efforts
to create, colonize, and nationalize the Alberta-Montana
borderlands. "The Line Which Separates" makes an important and
useful comparison between American and Canadian government policies
and attitudes regarding race, gender, and homesteading. Federal
visions of the West in general and the borderlands in particular
rested on overlapping sets of assumptions about space, race, and
gender; those same assumptions would be used to craft the policies
that were supposed to turn national visions into local realities.
The growth of a white female population in the region, which should
have "whitened" and "easternized" the region, merely served to
complicate emerging categories. Both governments worked hard to
enforce the lines that were supposed to separate "good" land from
"bad," whites from aboriginals, different groups of newcomers from
each other, and women's roles from men's roles. The lines and
categories they depended on were used to distinguish each West, and
thus each nation, from the other. Drawing on a range of sources,
from government maps and reports to oral testimony and personal
papers, "The Line Which Separates" explores the uneven way in which
the borderlands were superimposed on Blackfoot country in order to
divide a previouslycohesive region in the late nineteenth century.
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