Ignoring the "Medicine Line"

The boundary established by the white man was meaningless

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During the 19th century, it was noted that “the subsistence of the half-blood population of the English settlements, the Indians, and the employees of the company [Hudson's Bay], is obtained from the buffalo of our plains. Their hunters and trappers prosecute their pursuits irrespective of boundary-lines…”  Further, it is noted that the Ojibwe who spend part of their time around Pembina found their subsistence easily gained. “Their reliance for food is principally on the buffalo, but they get some smaller game; and when their resources fail, the super-abundance of fish supplies them, which, as they are caught by the women and children, who are always the most industrious, makes them careless about the future. They go to the Plains with their half-breeds after buffalo.”
Wheeler-Voegelin, Erminie, 1903-The Red Lake and Pembina Chippewa