Research Catalog

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, 2000.

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Details

Description

xv, 481 pages : illustrations, maps; 23 cm

Summary

"Skyscrapers Hide the Heavens is the first comprehensive account of Indian-white relations throughout Canada's history. 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 Indians are resisting displacement and marginalization." "This new edition is the result of substantial revision to incorporate current scholarship and bring the text up to date. It includes new material on the North, and reflects changes brought about by the Oka crisis, the sovereignty issue, and the various court decisions of the 1990s. It also includes new material on residential schools, treaty making, and land claims."--Jacket.

Subject

• Indians of North America > Canada > Government relations
• Indians of North America > Canada > History
• Indians > First contact with other peoples
• Indians > First contact with other peoples > Canada
• Indigenous peoples in Canada
• Indians > First contact with other peoples
• Ethnic relations
• Indians of North America
• Indians of North America > Government relations
• Canada > Ethnic relations
• Canada

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [449]-463) and index.

Contents

1. Indians and Europeans at the Time of Contact -- 2. Early Contacts in the Eastern Woodlands -- 3. Commercial Partnership and Mutual Benefit -- 4. Military Allies through a Century of Warfare -- 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 -- 10. The North-West Rebellion -- 11. The Policy of the Bible and the Plough -- 12. Residents and Transients in the North -- 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 -- 16. Do We Learn Anything from History?

ISBN

• 0802081533
• 9780802081537

LCCN

00269159

OCLC

• ocm44550634
• 44550634
• SCSB-9456988

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library