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Skyscrapers hide the heavens : a history of Indian-white relations in Canada / J.R. Miller.
- Title
- Skyscrapers hide the heavens : a history of Indian-white relations in Canada / J.R. Miller.
- Author
- Miller, J. R. (James Rodger), 1943-
- Publication
- Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, ©1989.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | E92 .M55 1989 | Off-site | |
| Text | Request in advance | N.A.SOC. M 615 s | Off-site |
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- Description
- xi, 329 pages : illustrations, maps; 25 cm
- Summary
- History of the social, economic, and institutional relationship between native Indians and whites in Canada. Includes chapters on the Northwest Rebellion, native-education policies, cultural assimilation, and Indian-white political relations since 1945.
- Subject
- Weise, ..
- Indians of North America > Canada > Government relations
- Indians of North America > Canada > History
- First Nations > Government relations
- First Nations > History
- Peuples autochtones > Canada > Histoire
- Peuples autochtones > Canada > Relations avec l'État
- Peuples autochtones > Canada > Ouvrages pour la jeunesse
- Premières Nations > Relations avec l'État
- Indiens d'Amérique > Canada > Histoire
- Ethnic relations
- Indians of North America
- Indians of North America > Government relations
- Geschichte
- Indianer
- Indianen
- Cultuurcontact
- Blanken
- Etnische betrekkingen
- Iwi taketake
- First Nations > Government relations
- First Nations > History
- Canada > Ethnic relations
- Canada
- Kanada
- Weiße
- Indianer
- North American Indians, history
- Genre/Form
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-316) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Indians and Europeans at the time of contact -- Early contacts in the eastern woodlands -- Commercial partnership and mutual benefit -- Military allies through a century of warfare -- 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 -- The Northwest Rebellion of 1885 -- The policy of the Bible and the plough -- The beginnings of political organization -- Political relations after the white paper -- Aboriginal rights, land claims, and the struggle to survive -- Do we learn anything from history?
- ISBN
- 0802058035
- 9780802058034
- 0802068006
- 9780802068002
- 0802068693
- 9780802068699
- LCCN
- 89174858
- OCLC
- 23767247
- SCSB-10127496
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library