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Book SynopsisAuthor 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.
Trade Review"If we learn anything from history it will be because of histories like Skyscrapers Hide the Heavens, which help put into perspective what Buffy Ste. Marie sings about as the ‘bitter past’ and give to Indian-white relations a sense of hope." -- M.T. Kelly * Globe and Mail *
"Drawing on recent scholarship, [Skyscrapers Hide the Heavens] is both broad and even-handed, covering developments in the Indigenous-settler relationship as it headed into the twenty-first century…." -- Susan Neylan, Wilfred Laurier University * The Canadian Historical Review, Vol 100 1, March ‘19 *
Table of ContentsPreface 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
