Skyscrapers hide the heavens : a history of Native-newcomer relations in Canada
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- ISBN: 9781487521752 (pbk.)
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Physical Description:
xix, 431 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm
print - Edition: Fourth edition.
- Publisher: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2017.
- Copyright: ©2017
Content descriptions
General Note: | Subtitle on previous edition: A history of Indian-white relations in Canada. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Introduction. Indigenous peoples and Europeans at the time of contact -- Part one : cooperation. Early contacts in the eastern woodlands -- Commercial partnership and mutual benefit -- Military allies through a century of warfare -- Part two : coercion. 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 : "bounty and benevolence" -- The North-West Rebellion -- The policy of the Bible and the plough -- Residents and transients in the North : relations to the 1960s -- Part three : confrontation. The beginnings of political organization -- Land claims and self-government from the White Paper to Guerin -- Meech, Oka, Charlottetown, Nass, and Ottawa : relations 1986-2000 -- Part four : reconciliation. Relations in the twenty-first century -- 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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Castlegar Campus Library | E 78 C2 M54 2017 (Text)
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Reconciliation
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