Documents and Links

Background Documents

UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

Border Crossing Rights under the Jay Treaty

US Border Patrol 100 mile enforcement zone

Wikipedia: Canada-United States border

Nation to Nation: Treaties between the United States and American Indian Nations

Organizations

Idle No More and the Border (CCUSB)

Educational Resources

The Ways: Stories on Culture & Language from Native Communities around the Central Great Lakes

AntiAtlas of Borders

Films

Frozen River

The Medicine Line

Media

Digital Privacy at US Border Crossings

Scholarly Publications

Caroline Dodds Pennock (2023).  On Savage Shores: How Indiegnous Americans Discovered Europe.

Pekka Hämäläinen (2022).  Indigenous Continent.  The Epic Contest for North America.

Felicity Amaya Schaeffer (2022).  Unsettled Borders: The Militarized Science of Surveillance on Sacred Indigenous Land.

Benjamin Hoy (2021).   A Line of Blood and Dirt: Creating the Canada-United States Border across Indigenous Lands.

David Graeber and David Wengrow (2021).  The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity.

David Treuer (2019).  The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present.

Emma Norman (2015).  Governing Transboundary Waters: Canada, the United States, and Indigenous Communities.

Winona LaDuke (2015). All Our Relations: Native Struggles for Land and Life.

Anton Treuer (2014).  Atlas of Indian Nations.

Audra Simpson (2014).  Mohawk Interruptus: Political Life Across the Borders of Settler States.

Patty Loew (2013).  Indian Nations: Histories of Endurance and Survival.

Kyle Conway and Timothy Pasch (2013).  Beyond the Border: Tensions across the Forty-Ninth Parallel in the Great Plains and Prairies.

Michael Wittgen (2013).  An Infinity of Nations: How the Native World Shaped Early North America.

Bellfy, Phil (2011).  Three Fires Unity: The Anishinaabeg of the Lake Huron Borderlands.

Rachel Rose Starks, Jen McCormack, Stephen Cornell (2011).  Native Nations and U.S. Borders: Challenges to Indigenous Culture, Citizenship, and Security.

Ian Barnes (2009). The Historical Atlas of Native Americans.

Shari Huhndorf (2009).  Mapping the Americas: Transnational Politics of Contemporary Native Culture.

Karl S. Hele (2008).  Lines Drawn Upon the Water: First Nations and the Great Lakes Borders and Borderlands.

Robin Riley Fast (1999).  The Heart as a Drum: Continuance and Resistance in American Indian Poetry.