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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Author J.R. Miller charts the deterioration of the relationship from the initial, mutually beneficial contact in the fur trade to the displacement, marginalization, and assimilation of the Indigenous population, through to the current ...
economically dependent upon, Euro-Canadians, they continued to assert themselves in their relations with governments, churches, and the ordinary population. Readers will not find in this account a portrait of the Indians of Canada as ...
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, ...
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 migratory hunter-gatherers. Some of the towns in Iroquoia numbered as ...
Most of the non-commercial warfare that existed prior to European incursions was attributed by Natives to retribution, vengeance, and replenishing population losses.11 Warfare was not racially or ethnically motivated.
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