Compact, Contract, Covenant: Aboriginal Treaty-Making in Canada

'It is a superior text for students of Aboriginal history at all levels and a valuable complement to Miller's earlier survey, Skyscrapers Hide the Heavens.' Jill St. Germain, CHR, Vol 91, June 2010

It should become a workhorse volume for both undergraduates, who can debate its arguments and learn from its insights, and for more advanced scholars, who will, one hopes, plunge into the myriad possibilities for futher research that this work stimulates. Barry Cottam, Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol 30:01:10

‘This is an ambitious book, the first history of treaty making in Canada intended for the general reader as well as for academic historians.’ Sidney L. Harring: Great Plains Quarterly, Spring 2011

'Jim Miller has put us all in his debt. His lucid and comprehensive analysis takes the reader through the tangled history of treaty-making in Canada from early days to the very recent Nisga'a Treaty (1999) and the Tsawwassen First Nation Treaty (2007). He supplements official sources with a rich array of First Nation voices. The general public and fellow scholars will be richly rewarded by reading Miller's enlightening analysis of the history of treaty-making. Compact, Contract, Covenant is a major contribution to constitutional scholarship.' Alan Cairns, Department of Political Science, University of Waterloo

'Compact, Contract, Covenant is the first successful comprehensive analysis of the treaty-making process and its rationale in the Canada. While many regionally focused works of this nature exist, they do not possess the same transnational, expressly historic focus as does this book. It is presented exceptionally well and is easy to read and understand.' Tony Gulig, Department of History, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater