Western Canadian History Lecture Series

Western Canadian History Lecture Series - "Neighbours, Rivals, and Exiles: How Plains Indigenous Peoples Shaped Canada's Western Expansion"

Our guest speaker, Michel Hogue is associate professor in the Department of History at Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario, where he teaches Indigenous, Canadian, and U.S. history. His research focuses on the Metis and First Nations of the trans-border Great Plains and their encounters with the agents of the Canadian and U.S. governments. He is the author of Metis and the Medicine Line: Creating a Border and Dividing a People (2015), which won the Stubbendieck Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize (Centre for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska) and the Prairie Clio Award (Canadian Historical Association).