Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Figures vii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. Introduction: Paradoxes of the Border 3
6. The Mediated Border
7. The Borders of Cultural Difference: Canadian Television and Cultural Identity 29
8. The Canadian Sitcom and the Fantasy of National Difference: Little Mosque on the Prairie and English-Canadian Identity 39
9. The Flow of Amusement: The First Year of Moving Pictures in the Red River Valley 71
10. The Political Border
11. ȜShutting Down the Snake Ranchȝ: Battling Booze at the BC Border, 1910–14 93
12. International and Domestic Pressures on the Governance of the St Mary and Milk Rivers 113
13. Water and Political Relations between the Upper Plains States and the Prairie Provinces: What Works, What Doesn’t, and What’s All Wet 133
14. The Native Border
15. Border Studies and Indigenous Peoples: Reconsidering Our Approach 153
16. Navigating the ȜErotic Conversionȝ: Transgression and Sovereignty in Native Literatures of the Northern Plains 170
17. The Anishnaabeg of Bawating: Indigenous People Look at the Canada-US Border 199
18. Conclusion: Beyond the Paradoxes of the Border 223
19. Contributors 239
20. Index 243