Framing Borders: Principle and Practicality in the Akwesasne Mohawk Territory U.S.A. History Reading Counts Level: 5

Reading Counts Level: 5

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and why assimilation remained the goal of post-war Canadian Indian policy | even though the war required that it be rationalized in new ways

endure the loss of two members captured by a Bwaanag (Dakota) war party

Framing Borders: Principle and Practicality in the Akwesasne Mohawk Territory U.S.A. History Reading Counts Level: 5Framing Borders written by Ian Kalman, addresses a fundamental disjuncture between scholastic portrayals of settler colonialism and what actually takes place in Akwesasne Territory, the largest Indigenous cross border community in Canada. Whereas most existing portrayals of Indigenous nationalism emphasize border crossing as a site of conflict between officers and Indigenous nationalists, in this book Ian Kalman observes a much more diverse range of