The complexity of this history is daunting, yet it could not be in more capable and confident hands. On one level, Michel Hogue's study constitutes a rigorous analysis of the Metis as a borderland people. But it is also a micro-history of families and individuals who are vividly brought to life—a demonstration of how the stories of the Metis people are inextricably bound to larger narratives of race and nation.—Sarah Carter, University of Alberta



This book makes a crucial contribution to Metis studies and to literature on state formation. Bringing to the fore the important role of the border and the unique problems and solutions tied to race making at the time, this book is an important and noteworthy read.—Gerhard Ens, University of Alberta



Michel Hogue does what no other historian has managed. . . . Metis and the Medicine Line reshapes our understanding not only of the history of the international boundary but, importantly, of who the Plains Metis were and who they became as they helped to create and define that border.—Brenda Macdougall, University of Ottawa

The complexity of this history is daunting, yet it could not be in more capable and confident hands. On one level, Michel Hogue's study constitutes a rigorous analysis of the Metis as a borderland people. But it is also a micro-history of families and individuals who are vividly brought to life--a demonstration of how the stories of the Metis people are inextricably bound to larger narratives of race and nation.