Skyscrapers Hide the Heavens: A History of Native-Newcomer Relations in Canada, Fourth EditionUniversity of Toronto Press, 1. ožu 2018. - Broj stranica: 456 First published in 1989, Skyscrapers Hide the Heavens continues to earn wide acclaim for its comprehensive account of Native-newcomer relations throughout Canada’s history. Author J.R. Miller charts the deterioration of the relationship from the initial, mutually beneficial contact in the fur trade to the current displacement and marginalization of the Indigenous population. The fourth edition of Skyscrapers Hide the Heavens is the result of considerable revision and expansion to incorporate current scholarship and developments over the past twenty years in federal government policy and Aboriginal political organization. It includes new information regarding political organization, land claims in the courts, public debates, as well as the haunting legacy of residential schools in Canada. Critical to Canadian university-level classes in history, Indigenous studies, sociology, education, and law, the fourth edition of Skyscrapers will be also be useful to journalists and lawyers, as well as leaders of organizations dealing with Indigenous issues. Not solely a text for specialists in post-secondary institutions, Skyscrapers Hide the Heavens explores the consequence of altered Native-newcomer relations, from cooperation to coercion, and the lasting legacy of this impasse. |
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... Iroquois account, the earth rested on the back of the Great Turtle. Hence, the Iroquois referred to their world as Turtle Island.3 The scientific account was invariably more prosaic than the creation stories of the First Nations ...
... Iroquois were stretched in a band extending from west of the Hudson River to the lands south of Lake Ontario. From east to west they were the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, and Seneca. (In 1723 they would be joined by a sixth people ...
... Iroquois Confederacy were sometimes called the Haudenosaunee, or “people of the longhouse.” Other consequences flowed from the economy and settlement pattern of the Iroquoians. For one thing, the important economic role of the women ...
... Iroquois Confederacies in particular – to reach and carry out agreements. A tribe or nation possessed its own territory and its own council of sachems (chiefs). A confederacy had a representative council; the grand council of the Five ...
... Iroquois or Montagnais traders were perfectly capable of exploiting their monopoly of European goods by exacting high prices for kettles or knives when they passed them on to less favoured nations in the interior. It was common to use ...
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