Skyscrapers Hide the Heavens: A History of Native-Newcomer Relations in Canada, Fourth EditionFirst 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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East of what is now the St. Maurice Valley were the Montagnais (Innu); along the Ottawa River were found Algonkin; and near Lake Nipissing the nation that gave the lake its name. The other major Algonkian nations were the Ottawa, ...
Reliance on the wild rice that was found in some lakes was also common. ... that constituted this extraordinary League of the Iroquois were stretched in a band extending from west of the Hudson River to the lands south of Lake Ontario.
One such was the copper that communities on the shore of Lake Superior had and traded with other First Nations to the east. This important metal – apparently the only metal that Indigenous peoples of eastern North America knew prior to ...
... sons of the Iroquoian chief Donnacona, to take them back to France. Donnacona was a leader of some of the St. Lawrence Iroquoians, who in the sixteenth century dominated the River of Canada from present-day Lake Ontario to the Gaspé ...
The beaver spent the winter in remote lakes and streams, under the protection of a lodge it built of branches and mud. The surface of these lodges was extremely hard, and their underwater entrances difficult to detect.
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