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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peoples, two contrasting societies that would nonetheless cooperate successfully for centuries before relations deteriorated into conflict and confrontation. The Aboriginal societies with whom Cartier and those who followed him came ...
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, ...
Captured prisoners – men of young or middle age were particularly important – were taken back to the village of the successful raiding party. Prisoners were adopted by a family in the victors' village, and in some cases the adoptees ...
The missionaries posed a less obvious, longer-term threat to their spiritual health and their cultural identity; the First Nations were less successful in developing strategies to counter this menace. From the earliest times, ...
The creation of hospitals and the provision of medical care, however, were successful and permanent missionary efforts carried on by both priests and nuns in the settlements. But the experiment in Huronia was instructive about the First ...
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| Naslov | Skyscrapers Hide the Heavens: A History of Native-Newcomer Relations in Canada, Fourth Edition |
| Autor | J.R. Miller |
| Izdanje | 4 |
| Izdavač | University of Toronto Press, 2018 |
| ISBN | 1487514506, 9781487514501 |
| Duljina | Broj stranica: 456 |
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