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Skyscrapers hide the heavens : a history of Native-newcomer relations in Canada Cover Image Book Book

Skyscrapers hide the heavens : a history of Native-newcomer relations in Canada

Miller, J. R. (James Rodger) 1943- (author.).

Summary: "First 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."-- publisher's description

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  • ISBN: 9781487521752
  • ISBN: 9781487502058
  • Physical Description: print
    xix, 431 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm
  • Edition: Fourth edition.
  • Publisher: Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2018]

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General Note:
Subtitle on previous edition: A history of Indian-white relations in Canada.
Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note: Introduction : Indigenous peoples and Europeans at the time of contact -- Part 1. Cooperation : Early contacts in the eastern woodlands -- Commercial partnership and mutual benefit --  Military allies through a century of warfare -- Part 2. Coercion : From alliance to "irrelevance" -- Reserves, residential schools, and the threat of assimilation -- The commercial frontier on the Western Plains -- Contact, commerce, and Christianity on the Pacific -- Resistance in Red River and the numbered treaties: "bounty and benevolence" -- The North-West Rebellion -- The policy of the Bible and the plough -- Residents and transients in the North: relations to the 1960s -- Part 3. Confrontation : The beginnings of political organization -- Land claims and self-government from the white paper to Guerin -- Meech, Oka, Charlottetown, Nass, and Ottawa: relations 1986-2000 -- Part 4. Reconciliation? : Relations in the twenty-first century -- Do we learn anything from history?

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  • 2 of 2 copies available at Nicola Valley Institute of Technology.

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Merritt Campus E78 C2 M54 2018 (Text) 37100012531559 Regular Collection Volume hold Available -
Vancouver Campus E78 C2 M54 2018 (Text) 37100022019967 Regular Collection Volume hold Available -
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