Living with strangers, the nineteenth-century Sioux and the Canadian-American borderlands

• Main Author: McCrady, David Grant
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 1998
• Subjects: Canada; Indian; St. Louis; Metis
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1993/1885

The nineteenth-century Sioux are best conceptualized as a borderlands people. They made tremendous tactical use of their proximity to different groups of Europeans. Sioux in the Upper Mississippi Valley supported French traders during the early eighteenth century, but quickly accepted British ones a...