Construindo o Paralelo 49º: como o Canadá e os Estados Unidos usaram espaço, raça e gênero para transformar as terras dos Blackfoot nas regiões fronteiriças de Alberta-Montana

Abstract

This article focuses on how Blackfoot country was turned into the Alberta-Montana borderlands from the late 1860s to the mid 1880s. It explores how this transition was accomplished, where the governments "succeeded" and where they failed. It examines how each national government perceived and tried to consolidate its hold over "its" west and "its" side of the border through a grid of racialized and gendered policies. It argues that the transition was uneven, always contested, and never quite as successful as federal officials wanted and believed it to be. The amount that they did manage to accomplish, however, was remarkable, and in less than 30 years the foundation was laid for the settler society that was to follow.