Books written by James Rodger Miller
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Compact, Contract, Covenant: Aboriginal Treaty-making in Canada
... Plate 14, 'Prehistoric Trade' 4 Joseph-François Lafitau, Customs of the American Indians Compared with the Customs of Primitive Times, 2 vols (Toronto: Champ ain Society, 1974; first French edn, Paris, 1724), 2: 171 5 James Axtell, ...
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Reflections on Native-newcomer Relations: Selected Essays
Fine examples of the contributions that the ethnohistorical method can make are to be found in the works of Bruce Trigger , James Axtell , and Cornelius Jaenen.21 These changes in anthropology were significant for historians because ...
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Shingwauk's Vision: A History of Native Residential Schools
55 James Axtell , The Invasion Within : The Contest of Cultures in Colonial North America ( New York : Oxford University Press 1985 ) , 68–9 ; Jean Delanglez , Frontenac and the Jesuits ( Chicago : Insitute of Jesuit History 1939 ) ...
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Skyscrapers Hide the Heavens: A History of Indian-white Relations in Canada
Petrone , P. , ed . First People , First Voices . Toronto : University of Toronto Press 1983 Plaice , Evelyn . ... New York : Knopf 1975 Ronda , James . ' The Sillery Experiment : A Jesuit - Indian Village in New France , 1637–1663 .
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Bounty and Benevolence: A Documentary History of Saskatchewan Treaties
The authors explain how Saskatchewan treaties were shaped by long-standing First Nations-Hudson's Bay Company diplomatic and economic understanding, treaty practices developed in eastern Canada before the 1870s, and the changing economic ...
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Skyscrapers Hide the Heavens: A History of Indian-white Relations in Canada
History of the social, economic, and institutional relationship between native Indians and whites in Canada. Includes chapters on the Northwest Rebellion, native education policies, cultural assimilation, and Indian-white political relations....
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Bounty and Benevolence: A History of Saskatchewan Treaties
Bounty and Benevolence draws on a wide range of documentary sources to provide a rich and complex interpretation of the process that led to these historic agreements.
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Reflections on Native-newcomer Relations: Selected Essays
The twelve essays that make up Reflections on Native-Newcomer Relations illustrate the development in thought by one of Canada's leading scholars in the field of Native history - J.R. Miller.
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Gabriel Dumont: The Métis Chief and His Lost World
"The reissue of George Woodcock's superb biography once again opens a door on the vanished world of the nineteenth century Canadian Prairies." - Richard Sandhurst, Prairie Books NOW
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Skyscrapers Hide the Heavens: A History of Indian-white Relations in Canada
In the five centuries since Europeans landed on Atlantic shores they have pursued aspirations at variance, and sometimes in direct conflict, with those of the Indian people who were here...
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Skyscrapers Hide the Heavens: A History of Native-Newcomer Relations in Canada, Fourth Edition
Author 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.
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Skyscrapers Hide the Heavens: A History of Native-newcomer Relations in Canada
The fourth edition of Skyscrapers Hide the Heavens is the result of considerable revision and expansion to incorporate current scholarship and developments over the past twenty years in federal government policy and Aboriginal political ...