BU BÖLÜM HAKKINDA
According to historian Benjamin Hoy, the US-Canadian border was a line of Blood and Dirt. This is the title of his recent book, the subtitle is Creating the Canada-United States Border Across Indigenous Lands published by Oxford University Press in 2021. The book foregrounds what he refers to as the lived experience of the border, and provides us with access to the perspectives that many Indigenous people have left for us. This book shows this was a complex history. Yes, both countries used violence, hunger and coercion to displace Indigenous communities and their ideas of territory and belonging. At the sametime it foregrounds their own efforts to come to terms with, and even build the border. We learn how federal governments, with this customs officers, border agents, police patrols, and surveyors encountered and interacted with Indigenous peoples and negotiated a border.
