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 ...
To maintain the commercial alliance, and assuming that the arrival of missionaries represented a continuation of the tradition of exchanging personnel, the First Nations accepted the strange black robes among them.
It is even more important to remember that European observers often failed to distinguish between Indigenous use of trade goods that undermined traditional ways and usages that merely reinforced their old beliefs and values.
... threatened the ecology on which traditional Indigenous economies and ways of life depended – to flourish. A commercial New France was a colony with low population, a colony that bore lightly on the land and its Native inhabitants.
Even in the Maritime region, where the Acadians were also farmers, the distinction held, because the settlers of French descent had farmed principally on diked and reclaimed land, not seriously infringing on traditional Mi'kmaq ...
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