Native but Foreign: Indigenous Immigrants and Refugees in the North American Borderlands

Winner, 2019 Spur Award for Best Historical Nonfiction Book, sponsored by Western Writers of America

In Native but Foreign, historian Brenden W. Rensink presents an innovative comparison of indigenous peoples who traversed North American borders in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, examining Crees and Chippewas, who crossed the border from Canada into Montana, and Yaquis from Mexico who migrated into Arizona. The resulting history questions how opposing national borders affect and rea...