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Skyscrapers hide the heavens : a history of Indian-white relations in Canada / J.R. Miller.
Highly acclaimed when the first edition appeared in 1989, "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.
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- ISBN: 9780802081537 (acid-free paper)
- ISBN: 0802081533 (acid-free paper)
- Physical Description: xv, 481 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
- Edition: 3rd ed.
- Publisher: Toronto ; University of Toronto Press, 2000.
Content descriptions
- Bibliography, etc. Note:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [449]-463) and index.
- Formatted Contents Note:
- Preface to the third edition -- Preface to the first edition -- Introduction - 1. Indians 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 - 10. The North-West Rebellion - 11. The policy of the Bible and the Plough - 12. Residents and transients in the north -- 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 - 16. Do we learn anything from history?
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Circulation Modifier | Holdable? | Status | Due Date | Courses |
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| Lansdowne Library | E 78 C2 M54 2000 (Text) | 26040002304984 | Main Collection | Volume hold | Available | - |