University of Nebraska Press

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In the late nineteenth century the forty-ninth parallel was a key site of Canadian and American efforts to shape their respective nations and to create national identities. The international border sliced through Blackfoot country, creating the Alberta-Montana borderlands yet the dynamic arising out of this region’s landscape, aboriginal people, …

Marcel Giraud's well-known study pieces together an objective history of the Metis and their role in the development of western Canada. Sadly, this two-volume work is out-of-print and a reprint is not contemplated.