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 ...
One scholar of Wendat history refers to them as “a matricentric society.”7 What these terms mean is that a person in Iroquoian society traced his or her family identity through the mother: one belonged to the family of one's mother.
An insight into the values of Aboriginal society resided in one of the grand council's practices: all decisions had to be unanimous. This requirement was in part the product of Natives' avoidance of coercing others.
But in Aboriginal society this prestige was established and maintained not by piling up and hoarding wealth but by distributing it among one's followers. Generosity was a defining characteristic of these societies, as the Jesuit Father ...
... the effect of bonding together more closely the various Huron clans and families, and even nations.15 Other rituals aimed to ward off or cure disease, and in some nations curing societies had an important social and religious role.
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