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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Chief among these agricultural products was maize, or corn, which was being grown and harvested a thousand years ago in the territory that at present is southern Ontario and Quebec. Other groups of Aboriginal peoples who lived north of ...
From east to west they were the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, and Seneca. (In 1723 they would be joined by a sixth people, the Tuscarora, who were fleeing agricultural settlement in the Thirteen Colonies, to become the Six Nations.) ...
Once the agricultural site was readied, the village would move. The Iroquoians' relatively secure food supply meant that theirs was a sedentary lifestyle and that their concentrations of population were much greater than those of ...
Other important trade items were tobacco and maize, both of which were the property of the agricultural Iroquoians. Surplus corn was the basis of Huron influence long before the European came; communities that wanted tobacco for both ...
Penetration of Newfoundland for agricultural settlement led to resistance and repulse by the Indigenous people. After the unsuccessful Norse attempt, contacts apparently became intermittent and commercial, rather than systematic and ...
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