Miller, Jim
Jim Miller, JR Miller, Miller, J. R. James Rodger
University of Saskatchewan, History
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Book Reviews
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A. D. Fisher
Jill P. May
Heather K. Hardy
Gregory R. Campbell
Carolyn Balkwell
Catherine Price
Kathleen A. Dahl
Alice B. Kehoe
Cornelius J Jaenen
Rebecca Kugel
Michael J. Mullin
Steven Allaback
Greg Sarris
Martine J. Reid
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American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 14, no. 3, 1990, pp. 93-174
Description
Book reviews of:
As Long as the Rivers Run: Hydroelectric Development and Native Communities in Western Canada by James B. Waldram.
Sun Journey: A Story of Zuni Pueblo by Ann Nolan Clark.
Maricopa Morphology and Syntax by Lynn Gordon.
The Cheyenne Nation: A Social and Demographic History by John H. Moore.
Pride of the Indian Wardrobe-Northern Athapascan Footwear by Judy Thompson.
Sagebrush Soldier: Private William Earl Smith's View of the Sioux War of 1876 by Sherry L.
Serving the Ties that Bond: Government Repression of Indigenous Religious Ceremonies on the Prairies
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
J. R. Miller
Religious Studies and Theology, vol. 17, no. 2, December 1998, pp. 87-89
Description
Book review of: Severing the Ties that Bind by Katherine Pettipas.
Shingwauk's Vision: A History of Native Residential Schools
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Rob Nestor
Prairie Forum, vol. 22, no. 1, Spring, 1997, pp. 158-161
Description
Book review of: Shingwauk's Vision: A History of Native Residential Schools by J. R. Miller.
Skyscrapers Hide the Heavens: A History of Indian-White Relations in Canada
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Paul Tennant
BC Studies, no. 87, Autumn, 1990, pp. 97-98
Description
Book review of: Skyscrapers Hide the Heavens by J.R. Miller.
Scroll down to page 97 to read review.
Spirit Wars
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
J.R. Miller
Canadian Journal of History, vol. 37, no. 2, August 2002, pp. 415-16
Description
Book review of: Spirit Wars: Native North American Religion in the Age of Nation Building by Ronald Niezen.
The Alberni Residential School Case: Blackwater v Plint
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Jim Miller
Indigenous Law Bulletin, vol. 5, no. 12, Autumn, October 2001
Description
Outlines the memorable and lengthy case, and reflects on the complexities of residential school abuse litigations.
The Blackfoot Confederacy, 1880-1920: A Comparative Study of Canadian and U.S. Indian Policy (Book Review)
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
J.R Miller
Journal of American History, vol. 75, no. 3, December 1988, p. 972
Description
Book review of: The Blackfoot Confederacy, 1880-1920: A Comparative Study of Canadian and U.S. Indian Policy by Hana Samek.
The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas, vol. 1: North America (Parts 1 and 2)
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
J. R. Miller
Canadian Historical Review, vol. 79, no. 3, September 1998, pp. 609-611
Description
Book review of: The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas, vol. 1: North America (Parts 1 and 2) edited by. Bruce G. Trigger and Wilcomb E. Washburn.
Entire book review section of one pdf. To access this review, scroll to p. 607.
The Dakota of the Canadian Northwest: Lessons for Survival (Book Review)
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
J.R. Miller
Canadian Historical Review, vol. 70, no. 3, September 1989, pp. 398-400
Description
Book review of: The Dakota of the Canadian Northwest: Lessons for Survival by Peter Douglas Elias.
The Heavens are Changing: Nineteenth-Century Protestant Missions and Tsimshian Christianity
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
J. R. Miller
BC Studies, no. 138/139, Native Geographies, Summer/Autumn, 2003, pp. 184-186
Description
Book review of: The Heavens are Changing: Nineteenth-Century Protestant Missions and Tsimshian Christianity by Susan Neylan.
To access this review, scroll to page 184.
The Ojibwa of Western Canada 1780-1870 (Book Review)
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
J. R. Miller
Canadian Ethnic Studies, vol. 29, no. 2, 1997, pp. 148-149
Description
Book review of: The Ojibwa of Western Canada 1780-1870 by Laura L. Peers.
The Path's of Katheri's Kin (Book Review)
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
J.R. Miller
American Historical Review, vol. 103, no. 5, December 1998, pp. 1684-1685
Description
Book review of: The Path's of Katheri's Kin by Christopher Vecsey.
The Red Man's on the Warpath: The Image of the "Indian" and the Second World War (Book Review)
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
J.R Miller
International Journal, vol. 60, no. 4, Autumn, 2005, pp. 1160-1162
Description
Book review of: The Red Man's on the Warpath by R. Scott Sheffield.
Treaties
Web Sites » Organizations
Author/Creator
J. R. Miller
Description
Explains why treatiesand argeements to share territory, are important building blocks of modern Canada.
Treaties and the Law
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Cynthia Block
Description
Video reports that Canadian law recognizes treaties as solemn, sacred agreements that create legally enforceable obligations on behalf of the First Nations and the Crown.
Duration: 33:08.
Troubled Legacy: A History of Native Residential Schools
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
J. R. Miller
Saskatchewan Law Review, vol. 66, no. 2, 2003, pp. 357-383
Description
Discussion of the history of the social problems, litigation and abuse that are products of the residential schools.
Urban Indian Reserves: Forging New Relationships in Saskatchewan
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
J.R. Miller
Great Plains Research, vol. 12, no. 2, 2002, pp. 386-387
Description
Book review of: Urban Indian Reserves edited by F. Laurie Barron and Joseph Garcea.
Victoria's "Red Children": The "Great White Queen Mother" and Native-Newcomer Relations in Canada
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
J. R. Miller
Native Studies Review, vol. 17, no. 1, 2008, pp. 1-23
Description
Examines how, in spite of increasingly hostile Colonial, then Canadian government relations toward First Nations people, they still maintained a strong attachment to the monarchy.
We Are All Treaty People: Maritime Beginnings
Alternate Title
Royal Society of Canada 2012 Governor General Lecture Series
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
James Miller
Description
Canada Research Chair in Native-Newcomer Relations traces the history of treaty-making from its early beginnings with the Peace and Friendship Treaties through to the present day.
Lecture given at Dalhousie University.
Duration: 41:17.
We are All Treaty People: New Models for a Shared Future
Alternate Title
Royal Society of Canada 2012 Governor General Lecture Series
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Jim Miller
Description
Speaker discusses the initial relationship between Aboriginals and Europeans, the motives behind the numbered treaties, the two parties' differing interpretations of the agreements, and the modern situation.
Lecture given at the University of Victoria.
Duration: 40:16.
We are All Treaty People: New Models for a Shared Future
Alternate Title
Royal Society of Canada 2012 Governor General Lecture Series
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Jim Miller
Description
Speaker focuses on the history of First Nations-settler relations and treaty-making in British Columbia.
Lecture given at the University of Victoria.
Duration: 38:55.
We are All Treaty People: Redefining the Relationship
Alternate Title
Royal Society of Canada 2012 Governor General Lecture Series
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Jim Miller
Description
Canada Research Chair in Native-Newcomer Relations traces history of treaty-making in Canada, with particular reference to Ontario.
Lecture given at the University of Waterloo.
Duration: 44:36.
Which 'Native' History? By Whom? For Whom?
Articles » General
Author/Creator
J. R. Miller
Canadian Issues, [Whose History For Whose Future], Fall, 2008, pp. 33-35
Description
Discusses a separate genre called Native newcomer history.