Lines Drawn upon the Water: First Nations and the Great Lakes Borders and Borderlands - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1554584876 ISBN 13 : 9781554584871

Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2016

Synopsis

The essays in Lines Drawn upon the Water examine the impact of the Canadian-American border on Indigenous communities in the Great Lakes Watershed, 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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Karl S. Hele, a member of the Garden River First Nation community of Anishinaabeg, is an associate professor and the director of First Peoples Studies at Concordia University. He is the editor of Lines Drawn upon the Water: First Nations and the Great Lakes Borders and Borderlands (WLU Press, 2008).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1554584876
• ISBN 13: 9781554584871
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 378
• Éditeur: Hele Karl S.
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