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Indigenous Peoples and the Second World War
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 367

Indigenous Peoples and the Second World War

A transnational history of how Indigenous peoples mobilised en masse to support the war effort on the battlefields and the home fronts.

The Red Man's on the Warpath
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 242

The Red Man's on the Warpath

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2007-10
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  • Publisher: UBC Press

This book explores how wartime symbolism and imagery propelled the “Indian problem” onto the national agenda, and why assimilation remained the goal of post-war Canadian Indian policy – even though the war required that it be rationalized in new ways.

Aboriginal Peoples and Military Participation
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 348

Aboriginal Peoples and Military Participation

"The CF prides itself on being a national institution that reflects and promotes the values of a diverse country. This includes Canada's Aboriginal peoples who have a proud history and tradition of military service extending from the colonial period, through the world wars, to contemporary operations. These historical and contemporary relationships are seldom explored beyond the narrow confines of our own national experience. Yet there have been, and continue to be, parallels in other Indigenous populations with a strong record of military service. The chapters in this pioneering volume contribute to cross-cultural awareness by offering a critical, comparative approach to understanding Aboriginal peoples' military service in Canada and around the world."--Back cover.

A Commemorative History of Aboriginal People in the Canadian Military
  • Language: en

A Commemorative History of Aboriginal People in the Canadian Military

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2010
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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The Engineer
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 720

The Engineer

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1893
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Battle Grounds
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 370

Battle Grounds

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2011-11-01
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  • Publisher: UBC Press

Base closures, use of airspace for weapons testing and low-level flying, environmental awareness, and Aboriginal land claims have focused attention in recent years on the use of Native lands for military training. But is the military's interest in Aboriginal lands new? Battle Grounds analyzes a century of government-Aboriginal interaction and negotiation to explore how the Canadian military came to use Aboriginal lands for training. It examines what the process reveals about the larger and evolving relationship between governments and Aboriginal communities and how increasing Aboriginal assertiveness and activism have affected the issue.

Indigenous Peoples of the British Dominions and the First World War
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 331

Indigenous Peoples of the British Dominions and the First World War

The first comprehensive examination and comparison of the indigenous peoples of the five British dominions during the First World War.

Rediscovering the British World
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 452

Rediscovering the British World

Rediscovering the British World is one part of an ongoing attempt to approach British Imperial history from a different viewpoint, placing the colonies of settlement at the centre. Editors Phillip Buckner and Douglas Francis have included nineteen essays from expert scholars in the field, which cover a broad range of cultural, social, and intellectual topics in British imperial history from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century. The essays focus on the history of Britain and the Empire, with considerable emphasis on the self-governing dominions of Canada, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand. They attempt to show the centrality of the Empire in the history of the nations create...

Seeing Red
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 522

Seeing Red

The first book to examine the role of Canada’s newspapers in perpetuating the myth of Native inferiority. Seeing Red is a groundbreaking study of how Canadian English-language newspapers have portrayed Aboriginal peoples from 1869 to the present day. It assesses a wide range of publications on topics that include the sale of Rupert’s Land, the signing of Treaty 3, the North-West Rebellion and Louis Riel, the death of Pauline Johnson, the outing of Grey Owl, the discussions surrounding Bill C-31, the “Bended Elbow” standoff at Kenora, Ontario, and the Oka Crisis. The authors uncover overwhelming evidence that the colonial imaginary not only thrives, but dominates depictions of Aboriginal peoples in mainstream newspapers. The colonial constructs ingrained in the news media perpetuate an imagined Native inferiority that contributes significantly to the marginalization of Indigenous people in Canada. That such imagery persists to this day suggests strongly that our country lives in denial, failing to live up to its cultural mosaic boosterism.