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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Indians, and later the mixed-blood people called Métis, largely determined the terms of trade, the nature of military alliances, and the outcomes of most martial engagements down to the nineteenth century. Even after Indians became ...
After the unsuccessful Norse attempt, contacts apparently became intermittent and commercial, rather than systematic and agricultural, for almost five centuries. The Norse continued to visit the coast of North America in search of ...
The Basques became noteworthy for whaling, while the French and English were particularly interested in the cod and other fish of the Grand Banks. The Basque also established a continuing pattern of European borrowing: they adapted ...
When the French began to direct serious attention to North America in the sixteenth century, they focused on the mainland and became involved in extensive contacts with the Natives.
Cartier's westward voyage in the interior was undertaken in search of the region that the Natives called the Kingdom of the Saguenay; it ended at the rapids in the river that became known by the ironic title of La Chine (China).
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