Metis and the Medicine Line: Creating a Border and Dividing a People. By Michel Hogue.

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Metis and the Medicine Line: Creating a Border and Dividing a People . David J. Weber Series in the New Borderlands History. By Michel Hogue. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2015. xi + 328 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $32.95, paper.) This is an important and useful book, exhaustively researched and well written. Michel Hogue has produced a fine study of the Plains Metis in their homelands, which became partitioned by the U.S.-Canada border. Rooted largely in the old North West Company and the Canadian-based fur trade, this growing population of Indigenous and European descent had come to dominate trade and buffalo hunting in the Red River region and beyond through the mid-nineteenth century. Closely linked through ancestry and kinship to numerous other … jennifer{at}professorsbrown.com