Metis and the Medicine Line

“Particularly effective in documenting how questions of race and nationality as well as the disappearance of the buffalo and the emergence of a more well-defined border determined the fate of the Plains Metis...Recommended.” — CHOICE

“Changes the terrain of our understanding.” — American Indian Culture and Research Journal

“An important and useful book, exhaustively researched and well written.” — Western Historical Quarterly

“An important addition to the Metis studies canon.” — Canadian Journal of History

“One of the best studies written about the western Canadian-US borderlands.” — Labour/Le Travail

“[A} substantial historical achievement . . . in the field of Metis history.”—Canadian Historical Review

“Hogue has devoted himself to fingering through archival collections in seven states and four provinces to uncover the boundary-crossing history of the Plains Metis.” — Literary Review of Canada

“An impressive piece of scholarship that examines how the Metis were impacted by the making of the border between Canada and the United States.” — Journal of Genocide Research

“Rich, detailed, and nuanced portrait of Native American whalemen.” — International Journal of Maritime History

“A welcome addition to the literature on Canadian metis and the westward expansion of Canada and the United States during the nineteenth century.” — Journal of American History