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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By the year 1000, the northeastern part of the continent was peopled by a myriad of bands, villages, and confederacies. Upon this complex and heterogeneous human community, later scholars have imposed a system of classification that ...
Their migrations followed a seasonal pattern in search of sustenance: in winter they generally moved in small bands, though in summer they would gather in larger groupings at suitable places for fishing and berrying.
The five peoples 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. From east to west they were the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, ...
(An Algonkian band's composition was a group of male kin who hunted together, their spouses, and their dependent families.) Among Iroquoians, chieftainship was hereditary among families of certain female lines, and the prominent women ...
The Indigenous inhabitants consisted of a multitude of bands and nations of hunter-gatherers and agriculturalists who had adjusted to their environment and lived in harmony with it. They had, especially the agrarian Iroquoians among ...
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