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The Line Which Separates: Race, Gender, and the Making of the Alberta-Montana Borderlands

The Line Which Separates: Race, Gender, and the Making of the Alberta-Montana Borderlands

McManus, Sheila

Paperback

Series: Race and Ethnicity in the American West

Canadian History19th Century United States HistoryGeneral World History

Publisher Price: $29.95

ISBN10: 0803283083
ISBN13: 9780803283084
Publisher: Univ Of Nebraska Pr
Published: Jun 1 2005
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.10 Depth: 8.98
Language: English
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 previously cohesive region in the late nineteenth century.

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