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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In this field, investigators find themselves in the position of the Cree man who went to Montreal in the 1970s to give testimony in a legal action about his traditional hunting territories. He had no problem responding positively to the ...
The Aboriginal societies with whom Cartier and those who followed him came into contact were diverse and well established in their respective territories. According to social scientists, their ancestors had entered North America from ...
It is not clear whether the term referred to the fact that Huronia, the territory they inhabited near Georgian Bay, was surrounded on three sides by water or if it was a reference to their belief that the world was an island that rested ...
A tribe or nation possessed its own territory and its own council of sachems (chiefs). A confederacy had a representative council; the grand council of the Five Nations consisted of fifty chiefs representing the different nations ...
It was not uncommon for one group to attack another in order to acquire food or products, or to force acquiescence in the aggressor's use of hunting or fishing territories. It is possible that warfare based on such motives was ...
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