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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As with the Mi'kmaq and Maliseet of the Atlantic region, what all these Algonkians of the interior had in common was language and economy. They were all principally hunter-gatherers, although some who occupied fertile lands cultivated ...
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).
In addition to being dependent on the First Nations for knowledge, the explorers relied on them for safe conduct and for the means to travel in the interior. As was the case with fishing captains, if European navigators alienated the ...
... Algonkians along the St. Lawrence and in the interior. From the 1620s onward, however, they were replaced by the Society of Jesus or Jesuits, one of the most formidable teaching and missionary orders of the Roman Catholic Church.
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.
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