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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... attempts to bring out more explicitly that the relationship had deleterious consequences, and the sections that deal with the fur trade emphasize that relations were usually better in the early than the later phase of the exchange.
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 ...
Upon this complex and heterogeneous human community, later scholars have imposed a system of classification that permits a clearer understanding of their nature. Anthropologists divide the Indigenous peoples of northeastern North ...
Later contacts would be more successful for the Europeans and less happy for the Indigenous populations. On the land mass of North America itself dwelt many other Algonkian nations. In what are today northern New Brunswick, ...
But the biggest Iroquoian grouping in what would later become Canada was the Huron Confederacy, which consisted of four nations who called themselves the Bear, Rock, Cord, and Deer. “Huron” was a term that would be applied to them by ...
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