Borderlands Nation The Sioux and the Struggle for the U.S.-Canada Frontier

When the United States and Great Britain drew a line across the northern plains in 1818, they believed they had created a border.

For the Sioux, it meant nothing.

For centuries, the Dakota, Yanktonai, and Lakota moved freely across the vast grasslands that would become the United States and Canada, hunting buffalo, forging alliances, trading with Europeans, and defending their homelands. But as two expanding nations pushed westward, the Sioux found themselves at the center of a geopolitical s...