Skyscrapers Hide the Heavens: A History of Indian-White Relations in Canada, 4th Ed.

Carlson and Labelle's review (resource attached), Page 418-419:

"The first essay in this collection, by George Colpitts, reorients our understandings of both the forms and motivations for international/tribal cooperation during the fur trade era. He reveals how memories, spirituality, and understandings of a neutral landscape enabled the Niitsitapi (Blackfoot nations), Cree, Nakoda, and Saulteaux peoples to put their differences aside and cooperate during a series of particularly mild winters in the 1830s that disrupted the migratory actions of bison in Alberta's ''Neutral Hills.'' Such ethno-historical analysis holds important lessons for contemporary society as it struggles with the growing crisis of environmental change.

The second article by Allan Downey and Susan Neylan focuses on the so-called ''Indian Sports Days'' in Coastal British Columbia. Downey and Neylan's research presents a convincing portrait of how Indigenous people transformed baseball, soccer, and other sports into vehicles for Indigenous agency and resistance. Their research demonstrates how practices designed to assimilate Indigenous peoples could be adopted and adapted to counter colonialism.

With a similar goal in mind, ''The Adoption of Frances T'' complicates our understanding of Canadian settler-colonial history by looking at a compelling case of transracial adoption, where, in the 1930s, a young mixed-ethnicity girl was adopted by First Nations parents. This perfectly legal action triggered a crisis among bureaucrats perplexed by a family whose composition challenged the government 's firmly established notions of racial and gender hierarchies.

The fourth article by Philip Goldring highlights northern Indigenous voices and perspectives through an examination of the Qikiqtani Truth Commission (qtc), which from 2007 to 2012 documented the history of thirteen Inuit communities for the period 1950-1975 - the era when the federal government, with tragic consequences, compelled Inuit peoples to relocate from their traditional homes to settler-style permanent communities. Goldring's article, more overtly than the other articles in this collection, makes a clear call for historians to employ their methodological approaches and training for the benefit of Indigenous communities and their current initiatives.

Accompanying these articles is a historiographical review essay by a team of University of Saskatchewan doctoral students who seek to highlight some of the most important scholarship to appear in the twenty-first century. Their assessment reveals the extent to which the historiography of Indigenous-settler society relations has diversified in recent years, not only in terms of the subjects being covered, but also in the methodologies and theories historians are using. Overall, the authors contend that the most common trend among historians has been to decolonize Indigenous history through a rigorous deconstruction of general interpretations. Complementing the students' essay, this issue also contains a special section of individual reviews of recently published books in Indigenous history.

Taken as a whole, we believe this collection is a testament to the longlasting legacy of Skyscrapers. J.R. Miller's synthesis provided a nation-wide study of Native-newcomer relations that served as a stable foundation for a vast body of future scholarship inspired by the themes of agency and resilience. These articles and reviews highlight the extent of the dynamic and innovative work that is currently being done in Canada, giving evidence for the diverse research that animates our field and will continue to do so into the future." (418-419).