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• Title:Skyscrapers hide the heavens : a history of Indian-white relations in Canada / J.R. Miller.
  
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• Author/Creator:Miller, J. R. (James Rodger), 1943-
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Xwi7xwa Collection
  
• Published/Created:Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2000.
  

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  • Location:XWI7XWA LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: CA M55 S59 2000
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• FNHL (Xwi7xwa) Subjects:Indigenous Peoples--History.
  Indigenous Peoples--Government relations.
  Indigenous Peoples--Colonization.
  Indigenous Peoples--Contact.
  Indigenous Peoples--Trade
  Indigenous Peoples--Activism.
  Indigenous Peoples--Resistance.
  Indigenous Peoples--Assimilation.
  
• Edition:3rd ed.
  
• Description:xv, 481 p. : ill. maps, ports. ; 23 cm.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:0802081533 :
  
• Contents: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 Commercial Frontier on the Western Plains
  8 Contact, Commerce, and Christianity on the Pacific
  9 Resistance in Red River and the Numbered Treaties
  10 North-West Rebellion
  11 Policy of the Bible and the Plough
  12 Residents and Transients in the North
  Part Three: Confrontation
  13 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?