Author: P. Whitney LackenbauerPublisher:
ISBN: 9780662459491
Category : Anciens combattants indiens d'Amérique
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Aboriginal Peoples and Military Participation
Author: P. Whitney LackenbauerPublisher:
ISBN: 9780662459491
Category : Anciens combattants indiens d'Amérique
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Indigenous Peoples and the Second World War
Author: R. Scott SheffieldPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108424635
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 367
Book Description
A transnational history of how Indigenous peoples mobilised en masse to support the war effort on the battlefields and the home fronts.
Defending Whose Country?
Author: Noah RisemanPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 0803246161
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
In the campaign against Japan in the Pacific during the Second World War, the armed forces of the United States, Australia, and the Australian colonies of Papua and New Guinea made use of indigenous peoples in new capacities. The United States had long used American Indians as soldiers and scouts in frontier conflicts and in wars with other nations. With the advent of the Navajo Code Talkers in the Pacific theater, Native servicemen were now being employed for contributions that were unique to their Native cultures. In contrast, Australia, Papua, and New Guinea had long attempted to keep indigenous peoples out of the armed forces altogether. With the threat of Japanese invasion, however, they began to bring indigenous peoples into the military as guerilla patrollers, coastwatchers, and regular soldiers. Defending Whose Country? is a comparative study of the military participation of Papua New Guineans, Yolngu, and Navajos in the Pacific War. In examining the decisions of state and military leaders to bring indigenous peoples into military service, as well as the decisions of indigenous individuals to serve in the armed forces, Noah Riseman reconsiders the impact of the largely forgotten contributions of indigenous soldiers in the Second World War.
Defending Country
Author: Noah RisemanPublisher: Univ. of Queensland Press
ISBN: 0702257125
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
The role of Aboriginal servicemen and women has only recently been brought to the forefront of conversation about Australia’s war history. This important book makes a key contribution to recording the role played by Indigenous Australians in our recent military history. Written by two respected historians and based on a substantial number of interviews with Indigenous war veterans who have hitherto been without a voice, it combines the best of social and military history in one book. This will be the first book to focus on this previously neglected part of Australian social history.
Aboriginal Peoples and Military Participation
Author: P. Whitney LackenbauerPublisher: Canadian Museum of Civilization/Musee Canadien Des Civilisations
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
"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.
For King and Kanata
Author: Timothy Charles WinegardPublisher: Univ. of Manitoba Press
ISBN: 0887554180
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
"The first comprehensive history of the Aboriginal First World War experience on the battlefield and the home front. When the call to arms was heard at the outbreak of the First World War, Canada's First Nations pledged their men and money to the Crown to honour their long-standing tradition of forming military alliances with Europeans during times of war, and as a means of resisting cultural assimilation and attaining equality through shared service and sacrifice. Initially, the Canadian government rejected these offers based on the belief that status Indians were unsuited to modern, civilized warfare. But in 1915, Britain intervened and demanded Canada actively recruit Indian soldiers to meet the incessant need for manpower. Thus began the complicated relationships between the Imperial Colonial and War Offices, the Department of Indian Affairs, and the Ministry of Militia that would affect every aspect of the war experience for Canada's Aboriginal soldiers. In his groundbreaking new book, For King and Kanata, Timothy C. Winegard reveals how national and international forces directly influenced the more than 4,000 status Indians who voluntarily served in the Canadian Expeditionary Force between 1914 and 1919--a per capita percentage equal to that of Euro-Canadians--and how subsequent administrative policies profoundly affected their experiences at home, on the battlefield, and as returning veterans."--Publisher's website.
A Sketch Account of Aboriginal Peoples in the Canadian Military
Author: John MosesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indigenous peoples
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This account of the history of Aboriginal participation in the Canadian military begins with an overview of the role of warfare in Aboriginal society before European contact, then narrates the history of Aboriginal involvement in early conflicts in Canada, including wars over the fur trade, the fighting between the British and French forces that finally led to the British conquest, the War of 1812, and conflicts between Aboriginals and Metis in the west. This is followed by reviews of the development of policies related to Aboriginal military service and histories of Aboriginal involvement in the rebellions of the 1837-71 period, the 1884-85 Nile expedition, the North-West (Riel) Rebellion, the Boer War, the two World Wars, and the Korean War. The final part briefly summarizes Aboriginal participation in the military during the Cold War & thereafter, including the work of the Canadian Rangers.
War at the Margins
Author: Lin PoyerPublisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 0824891813
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
War at the Margins offers a broad comparative view of the impact of World War II on Indigenous societies. Using historical and ethnographic sources, Lin Poyer examines how Indigenous communities emerged from the trauma of the wartime era with social forms and cultural ideas that laid the foundations for their twenty-first-century emergence as players on the world’s political stage. With a focus on Indigenous voices and agency, a global overview reveals the enormous range of wartime activities and impacts on these groups, connecting this work with comparative history, Indigenous studies, and anthropology. The distinctiveness of Indigenous peoples offers a valuable perspective on World War II, as those on the margins of Allied and Axis empires and nation-states were drawn in as soldiers, scouts, guides, laborers, and victims. Questions of loyalty and citizenship shaped Indigenous combat roles—from integration in national armies to service in separate ethnic units to unofficial use of their special skills, where local knowledge tilted the balance in military outcomes. Front lines crossed Indigenous territory most consequentially in northern Europe, Southeast Asia, and the Pacific Islands, but the impacts of war go well beyond combat. Like others around the world, Indigenous civilian men and women suffered bombing and invasion, displacement, forced labor, military occupation, and economic and social disruption. Infrastructure construction and demand for key resources affected even areas far from front lines. World War II dissolved empires and laid the foundation for the postcolonial world. Indigenous people in newly independent nations struggled for autonomy, while other veterans returned to home fronts still steeped in racism. National governments saw military service as evidence that Indigenous peoples wished to assimilate, but wartime experiences confirmed many communities’ commitment to their home cultures and opened new avenues for activism. By century’s end, Indigenous Rights became an international political force, offering alternative visions of how the global order might make room for greater local self-determination and cultural diversity. In examining this transformative era, War at the Margins adds an important contribution to both World War II history and to the development of global Indigenous identity.
Indigenous Peoples of the British Dominions and the First World War
Author: Timothy C. WinegardPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316102173
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 331
Book Description
This pioneering comparative history of the participation of indigenous peoples of the British Empire in the First World War is based upon archival research in four continents. It provides the first comprehensive examination and comparison of how indigenous peoples of Canada, Australia, Newfoundland, New Zealand and South Africa experienced the Great War. The participation of indigenes was an extension of their ongoing effort to shape and alter their social and political realities, their resistance to cultural assimilation or segregation and their desire to attain equality through service and sacrifice. While the dominions discouraged indigenous participation at the outbreak of war, by late 1915 the imperial government demanded their inclusion to meet the pragmatic need for military manpower. Indigenous peoples responded with patriotism and enthusiasm both on the battlefield and the home front and shared equally in the horrors and burdens of the First World War.
Aboriginal Peoples and the Canadian Military
Author: P. Whitney LackenbauerPublisher: Canadian Museum of Civilization/Musee Canadien Des Civilisations
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
