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Book Review

Canada and the United States

David G. McCrady. Living with Strangers: The Nineteenth-Century Sioux and the Canadian-American Borderlands. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. 2006. Pp. xvi, 168. $45.00.

David G. McCrady states that the goal of his bookis to explore "how the Sioux ... had come to understand the boundary and to use it for their own purposes," how they used the forty-ninth parallel "both as a shield against oppressive policies and as a gateway to new opportunities" (pp. xvi, 6). To explain this history, McCrady abandons historiographic notions of the Sioux being "American" Indians, treating them instead as specifically a borderlands people. Accomplishing this goal meant conducting transnational archival research, using a variety of resources from both sides of the forty-ninth parallel. When pieced together, the material shows the Sioux's creative use of the border and of different national polities to their benefit. Unlike other historians, McCrady shows that the back-and-forth border hopping was not unique to the post-Battle of the Little Bighorn era. The Sioux had a long history of aligning with the British (and later Canadians) throughout the nineteenth century while at the same time depending on U.S. territory for hunting and trading. Surprisingly, McCrady never refers to the border as a "medicine line" like other scholars have done, repeating an aboriginal understanding of the boundary.

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