Natives as Immigrants and Refugees
A Comparative North American Borderlands Example
Brenden W. Rensink
WHEN
Wednesday | 21 Mar, 12:00 PM
WHERE
238 HRCB
Wednesday | 21 Mar, 12:00 PM
WHERE
238 HRCB
Compare the Canadian and Mexican borders by considering the histories of Native peoples who crossed them into the United States: Crees and Chippewas from Canada and Yaquis from Mexico.
Brenden W. Rensink is the assistant director of the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies and an assistant professor of history at BYU. Following publications in comparative genocide studies, transnational borderlands, and Mormon history, Rensink’s new book Native but Foreign: Indigenous Immigrants and Refugees in the North American Borderlands will be published in May 2018.