With archival research from both the US and Canada, Ryan Hall shows for how the Blackfoot used their borderlands position to create one of North America's most vibrant and lasting Indigenous homelands. This book sheds light on a phase of Native and settler relations that is often elided in conventional interpretations of Western history.

Previously issued in print: 2020.

Náápi's place -- Strangers on the land, 1782-1806 -- Now they will pretend to equal us -- Between empires -- A future they were resolved to achieve -- Nefarious traffic.