Beneath the backbone of the world : Blackfoot People and the North American borderlands, 1720-1877 /

Beneath the backbone of the world : Blackfoot People and the North American borderlands, 1720-1877 /

For the better part of two centuries, between 1720 and 1877, the Blackfoot (Niitsitapi) people controlled a vast region of what is now the U.S. and Canadian Great Plains. As one of the most expansive and powerful Indigenous groups on the continent, they dominated the northern imperial borderlands of...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hall, Ryan, 1986- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2020]
Series:David J. Weber series in the new borderlands history.
Subjects:
Siksika Indians > History > 18th century.
Siksika Indians > History > 19th century.
Siksika Indians > Foreign relations.
Kainah Indians > History.
Piegan Indians > History.
Great Plains > Colonization > History.
Canadian-American Border Region > History.
Table of Contents:
  • Náápi's place
  • Strangers on the land, 1782-1806
  • Now they will pretend to equal us
  • Between empires
  • A future they were resolved to achieve
  • Nefarious traffic.