| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 93.3

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Living with Strangers: The Nineteenth-Century Sioux and the Canadian-American Borderlands. By David G. McCrady. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2006. xvi, 168 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-8032-3250-0.)
David G. McCrady tackles the subject of Sioux use and control of the northern borderlands, which he defines as the territory of southern Canada and the northern United States stretching from the Great Lakes to the Rocky Mountains and divided by the forty-ninth parallel. The story begins in 1752 when France and England attempted to control tribes and lands west of the Great Lakes. The narrative shifts following the 1763 Peace of Paris and the Convention of 1818, which divided between America and Canada the northern lands that lie along the forty-ninth parallel from Lake of the Woods to the Rocky Mountains.	1
Most of the narrative focuses on tribal responses to nineteenth-century Canadian and American expansion onto the northern prairies between the lake country and the western mountains. This was Sioux territory (the author defines Sioux as a political entity encompassing Lakota, Dakota, and Nakota communities). At this point the story becomes richer. It describes this paper border as ineffective, failing to deter tribal peoples from freely moving back and forth without fear. The border failed because of an absence of nineteenth-century Canadian-American northern borderland patrols. Neither nation forced their "Canadian or United States" tribesmen to stay on their respective side of the line.	. . .

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