Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Paradoxes of the Border -- THE MEDIATED BORDER -- 1 - The Borders of Cultural Difference: Canadian Television and Cultural Identity -- 2 - The Canadian Sitcom and the Fantasy of National Difference: Little Mosque on the Prairie and English-Canadian Identity -- 3 - The Flow of Amusement: The First Year of Moving Pictures in the Red River Valley -- THE POLITICAL BORDER -- 4 - "Shutting Down the Snake Ranch": Battling Booze at the BC Border, 1910-14 -- 5 - International and Domestic Pressures on the Governance of the St Mary and Milk Rivers -- 6 - Water and Political Relations between the Upper Plains States and the Prairie Provinces: What Works, What Doesn't, and What's All Wet -- THE NATIVE BORDER -- 7 - Border Studies and Indigenous Peoples: Reconsidering Our Approach -- 8 - Navigating the "Erotic Conversion": Transgression and Sovereignty in Native Literatures of the Northern Plains -- 9 - The Anishnaabeg of Bawating: Indigenous People Look at the Canada-US Border -- Conclusion: Beyond the Paradoxes of the Border -- Contributors -- Index.