14 Best history books like A Line of Blood and Dirt: Creating the Canada-United States Border across Indigenous Lands by Benjamin Hoy

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A Line of Blood and Dirt: Creating the Canada-United States Border across Indigenous Lands

By: Benjamin Hoy

3.95

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

The untold history of the multiracial making of the border between Canada and the United States. O…

If you liked the history plot in A Line of Blood and Dirt: Creating the Canada-United States Border across Indigenous Lands by Benjamin Hoy , here is a list of 14 books like this:

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1. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West

By: Dee Brown

4.25

Format: 509 pages, Paperback

Now a special 30th-anniversary edition in both hardcover and paperback, the classic bestselling his… read more

Similar categories in Dee Brown's Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West book and Benjamin Hoy's A Line of Blood and Dirt: Creating the Canada-United States Border across Indigenous Lands

  • history
  • nonfiction
"It is too often the case,"

-Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West

"We rarely know the full power of words, in print or spoken."

-Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West

"One does not sell the earth upon which the people walk.' - Tashunka Witko (Crazy Horse)"

-Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West

"To the Indians it seemed that these Europeans hated everything in nature - the living forests and their birds and beasts, the grassy grades, the water, the soil, the air itself."

-Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West

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2. The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed

By: John Vaillant

4.38

Format: None pages, Paperback

When a shattered kayak and camping gear are found on an uninhabited island in the Pacific Northwest… read more

Similar categories in John Vaillant's The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed book and Benjamin Hoy's A Line of Blood and Dirt: Creating the Canada-United States Border across Indigenous Lands

  • history
  • nonfiction
  • canada
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3. A Misplaced Massacre: Struggling Over the Memory of Sand Creek

By: Ari Kelman

3.66

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In the early morning of November 29, 1864, with the fate of the Union still uncertain, part of the … read more

Similar categories in Ari Kelman's A Misplaced Massacre: Struggling Over the Memory of Sand Creek book and Benjamin Hoy's A Line of Blood and Dirt: Creating the Canada-United States Border across Indigenous Lands

  • history
  • nonfiction

4. American Serengeti: The Last Big Animals of the Great Plains

By: Dan Flores

4.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Winner of the Stubbendieck Great Plains Distinguished Book PrizeAmerica's Great Plains once possess… read more

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5. Clearing the Plains: Disease, Politics of Starvation, and the Loss of Aboriginal Life

By: None

3.99

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

In arresting, but harrowing, prose, James Daschuk examines the roles that Old World diseases, clima… read more

Similar categories in None's Clearing the Plains: Disease, Politics of Starvation, and the Loss of Aboriginal Life book and Benjamin Hoy's A Line of Blood and Dirt: Creating the Canada-United States Border across Indigenous Lands

6. Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America

By: Lillian Faderman

3.80

Format: 212 pages, Paperback

Lillian Faderman tells the compelling story of lesbian life in the 20th century, from the early 190… read more

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7. Raw Dog: The Naked Truth About Hot Dogs

By: Jamie Loftus

3.92

Format: 301 pages, Hardcover

Part travelogue, part culinary history, all capitalist critique―comedian Jamie Loftus's debut, Raw … read more

Similar categories in Jamie Loftus's Raw Dog: The Naked Truth About Hot Dogs book and Benjamin Hoy's A Line of Blood and Dirt: Creating the Canada-United States Border across Indigenous Lands

  • history
  • nonfiction
"WE NEED MORE WOMEN PRIESTS! a billboard declares a few miles outside of Buffalo, a new cursed addition to a folder in my Google Drive called 'feminism except not really."

-Jamie Loftus, Raw Dog: The Naked Truth About Hot Dogs

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8. Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender

By: Kit Heyam

4.30

Format: 343 pages, Hardcover

A groundbreaking global history of gender nonconformity   Today’s narratives about trans people … read more

Similar categories in Kit Heyam's Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender book and Benjamin Hoy's A Line of Blood and Dirt: Creating the Canada-United States Border across Indigenous Lands

  • history
  • nonfiction
"It’s not as simple as saying that ‘while the terminology is new, the experiences are not.’ The advent of new terminology can genuinely shift how we think about gender, as well as what names we give t…"

-Kit Heyam, Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender

"It's important that we, as historians or as queer people, don't treat gender and sexuality as two things that use to be entangled but have now been teased apart. There can be a tendency in white quee…"

-Kit Heyam, Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender

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9. The Devil Takes You Home

By: Gabino Iglesias

3.67

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

This genre-defying, Shirley Jackson and Bram Stoker award-winning thriller follows a father despera… read more

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10. Lakota America: A New History of Indigenous Power (The Lamar Series in Western History)

By: Pekka Hämäläinen

4.26

Format: 544 pages, Hardcover

The first comprehensive history of the Lakota Indians and their profound role in shaping America’s … read more

Similar categories in Pekka Hämäläinen's Lakota America: A New History of Indigenous Power (The Lamar Series in Western History) book and Benjamin Hoy's A Line of Blood and Dirt: Creating the Canada-United States Border across Indigenous Lands

  • history
  • nonfiction
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11. Hollow Kingdom (Hollow Kingdom, #1)

By: Kira Jane Buxton

3.84

Format: 308 pages, Hardcover

One pet crow fights to save humanity from an apocalypse in this uniquely hilarious debut from a gen… read more

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"Penguins, it turns out, are pretty fucking delightful."

-Kira Jane Buxton, Hollow Kingdom (Hollow Kingdom, #1)

"Murders are forever, and what happens to one happens to all."

-Kira Jane Buxton, Hollow Kingdom (Hollow Kingdom, #1)

"The woods carry sounds in their slow rhythms, sounds that only a heart can hear."

-Kira Jane Buxton, Hollow Kingdom (Hollow Kingdom, #1)

"And everyone on earth knows if you have the respect of a cat it means your soul is worth being around."

-Kira Jane Buxton, Hollow Kingdom (Hollow Kingdom, #1)

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12. VenCo

By: Cherie Dimaline

3.79

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Lucky St. James, a Métis millennial living with her cantankerous but loving grandmother Stella, is … read more

Similar categories in Cherie Dimaline's VenCo book and Benjamin Hoy's A Line of Blood and Dirt: Creating the Canada-United States Border across Indigenous Lands

  • canada
"It felt like the drunken part of falling in love, the erratic and uncompromising compulsion that made you do dumb shit and your best shit at the same time. She had to stop herself from running. She h…"

-Cherie Dimaline, VenCo

"Throughout history, witches have been the stand-ins for all people who have felt 'outside' or 'different.' I say, fuck it -- go outside, be different, be so different they have to loosen their grip o…"

-Cherie Dimaline, VenCo

"She wondered if every place in New Orleans had a secret garden, if every place was so witchy and beautiful. And for the first time, she was filled with an enormous pride for who she was-- what she wa…"

-Cherie Dimaline, VenCo

Cover of The Indigenous Paleolithic of the Western Hemisphere by Paulette F.C. Steeves

13. The Indigenous Paleolithic of the Western Hemisphere

By: Paulette F.C. Steeves

4.07

Format: 326 pages, Hardcover

2022 Choice Outstanding Academic Title The Indigenous Paleolithic of the Western Hemisphere is a r… read more

Similar categories in Paulette F.C. Steeves's The Indigenous Paleolithic of the Western Hemisphere book and Benjamin Hoy's A Line of Blood and Dirt: Creating the Canada-United States Border across Indigenous Lands

  • history
  • nonfiction
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14. Aboriginal People and Colonizers of Western Canada to 1900 (Themes in Canadian History)

By: Sarah Carter

3.65

Format: 194 pages, Paperback

The history of Canada's Aboriginal peoples after European contact is a hotly debated area of study.… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Carter's Aboriginal People and Colonizers of Western Canada to 1900 (Themes in Canadian History) book and Benjamin Hoy's A Line of Blood and Dirt: Creating the Canada-United States Border across Indigenous Lands

  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of The North-West Is Our Mother: The Story of Louis Riel's People, the Métis Nation by Jean Teillet

15. The North-West Is Our Mother: The Story of Louis Riel's People, the Métis Nation

By: Jean Teillet

4.36

Format: 576 pages, ebook

There is a missing chapter in the narrative of Indigenous Peoples in Canada—the story of the Métis … read more

Similar categories in Jean Teillet's The North-West Is Our Mother: The Story of Louis Riel's People, the Métis Nation book and Benjamin Hoy's A Line of Blood and Dirt: Creating the Canada-United States Border across Indigenous Lands

  • history
  • nonfiction
  • canada
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16. Imperial Plots: Women, Land, and the Spadework of British Colonialism on the Canadian Prairies

By: Sarah Carter

3.94

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

Sarah Carter’s "Imperial Women, Land, and the Spadework of British Colonialism on the Canadian Pra… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • canada
Cover of Born of Lakes and Plains: Mixed-Descent Peoples and the Making of the American West by Anne F. Hyde

17. Born of Lakes and Plains: Mixed-Descent Peoples and the Making of the American West

By: Anne F. Hyde

4.08

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

A New Yorker Best Book of 2022 A fresh history of the West grounded in the lives of mixed-descent … read more

Similar categories in Anne F. Hyde's Born of Lakes and Plains: Mixed-Descent Peoples and the Making of the American West book and Benjamin Hoy's A Line of Blood and Dirt: Creating the Canada-United States Border across Indigenous Lands

  • history
  • nonfiction
  • canada
Cover of This Benevolent Experiment: Indigenous Boarding Schools, Genocide, and Redress in Canada and the United States (Indigenous Education) by Andrew Woolford

18. This Benevolent Experiment: Indigenous Boarding Schools, Genocide, and Redress in Canada and the United States (Indigenous Education)

By: Andrew Woolford

4.04

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

A Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2017   At the end of the nineteenth century, Indigenous boardi… read more

Similar categories in Andrew Woolford's This Benevolent Experiment: Indigenous Boarding Schools, Genocide, and Redress in Canada and the United States (Indigenous Education) book and Benjamin Hoy's A Line of Blood and Dirt: Creating the Canada-United States Border across Indigenous Lands

  • history
Cover of A Line of Blood and Dirt: Creating the Canada-United States Border across Indigenous Lands by Benjamin Hoy

19. A Line of Blood and Dirt: Creating the Canada-United States Border across Indigenous Lands

By: Benjamin Hoy

3.95

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

The untold history of the multiracial making of the border between Canada and the United States. O… read more

Similar categories in Benjamin Hoy's A Line of Blood and Dirt: Creating the Canada-United States Border across Indigenous Lands book and Benjamin Hoy's A Line of Blood and Dirt: Creating the Canada-United States Border across Indigenous Lands

  • history
  • nonfiction
  • canada
Cover of Women of the Northern Plains: Gender and Settlement on the Homestead Frontier, 1870-1930 by Barbara Handy-Marchello

20. Women of the Northern Plains: Gender and Settlement on the Homestead Frontier, 1870-1930

By: Barbara Handy-Marchello

3.78

Format: 210 pages, Kindle Edition

In Women of the Northern Plains, Barbara Handy-Marchello tells the stories of the unsung heroes of … read more

Similar categories in Barbara Handy-Marchello's Women of the Northern Plains: Gender and Settlement on the Homestead Frontier, 1870-1930 book and Benjamin Hoy's A Line of Blood and Dirt: Creating the Canada-United States Border across Indigenous Lands

  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Nuclear Country: The Origins of the Rural New Right (Haney Foundation Series) by Catherine McNicol Stock

21. Nuclear Country: The Origins of the Rural New Right (Haney Foundation Series)

By: Catherine McNicol Stock

3.75

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

Militarization and nuclearization were the historical developments most essential to the creation o… read more

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13 best-selling nonfiction books like A Line of Blood and Dirt: Creating the Canada-United States Border across Indigenous Lands by Benjamin Hoy

Transform Your Habits

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West

Dee Brown

4.25

Transform Your Habits

The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed

John Vaillant

4.38

Transform Your Habits

A Misplaced Massacre: Struggling Over the Memory of Sand Creek

Ari Kelman

3.66

Transform Your Habits

Raw Dog: The Naked Truth About Hot Dogs

Jamie Loftus

3.92

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21 Top fiction books like VenCo by Cherie Dimaline

Transform Your Habits

Thornhedge

T. Kingfisher

4.00

Transform Your Habits

Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology

Shane Hawk

3.98

Transform Your Habits

Moon of the Turning Leaves (Moon, #2)

Waubgeshig Rice

4.28

Transform Your Habits

The Familiar

Leigh Bardugo

3.84

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