Skyscrapers Hide the Heavens

A History of Native-Newcomer Relations in Canada, Fourth Edition

J.R. Miller (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

456 Seiten

2018 | Fourth Edition
University of Toronto Press (Verlag)
978-1-4875-0205-8 (ISBN)

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Author J.R. Miller charts the deterioration of the relationship from the initial, mutually beneficial contact in the fur trade to the current impasse in which Indigenous peoples are resisting displacement and marginalization.

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.

J.R. Miller is a professor emeritus of history at the University of Saskatchewan. He is the author of numerous works on issues related to Indigenous peoples including Skyscrapers Hide the Heavens and Shingwauk’s Vision, both published by University of Toronto Press.

Preface to the Fourth Edition
Note on Terminology
Preface to the Third Edition
Preface to the First Edition

INTRODUCTION
1 Indigenous Peoples and Europeans at the Time of Contact

PART ONE: COOPERATION
2 Early Contacts in the Eastern Woodlands
3 Commercial Partnership and Mutual Benefit
4 Military Allies through a Century of Warfare

PART TWO: COERCION
5 From Alliance to "Irrelevance"
6 Reserves, Residential Schools, and the Threat of Assimilation
7 The Commercial Frontier on the Western Plains
8 Contact, Commerce, and Christianity on the Pacific
9 Resistance in Red River and the Numbered Treaties: "Bounty and Benevolence"
10 The North-West Rebellion
11 The Policy of the Bible and the Plough
12 Residents and Transients in the North: Relations to the 1960s

PART THREE: CONFRONTATION
13 The Beginnings of Political Organization
14 Land Claims and Self-Government from the White Paper to Guerin
15 Meech, Oka, Charlottetown, Nass, and Ottawa: Relations 1986-2000

PART FOUR: RECONCILIATION?
16 Relations in the Twenty-First Century
17 Do We Learn Anything from History?

Notes
Select Bibliography
Illustration Credits
Index

Maps
First Nations of Canada
First Nations of northeastern North America at contact
Iroquoia (showing height of land)
The Ohio and Illinois Country, 1754
French possessions in North America, 1750
Effect of the Royal Proclamation of 1763
Location of western nations, 1821
First Nations of British Columbia
The numbered treaties, 1871–1921
North-West Rebellion, 1885

Erscheinungsdatum	27.03.2018
Verlagsort	Toronto
Sprache	englisch
Maße	191 x 260 mm
Gewicht	970 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Sozialpsychologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik
	Naturwissenschaften
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-4875-0205-2 / 1487502052
ISBN-13	978-1-4875-0205-8 / 9781487502058
Zustand	Neuware