Warriors of the King : Prairie Indians in World War I

Type

Book

Authors

L. James Dempsey ( Dempsey, L. James )

ISBN 10

0889771014

ISBN 13

9780889771017

Tags

Indigenous soldiers, World War 1914-1918 -- Indigenous participation, Indigenous peoples -- Western Canada -- History -- 20th century, World War 1914-1918, Indigenous veterans, Veterans

Abstract

"The contribution of more than 400 western Canadian Indians to the war effort from 1914-1918 has received only limited attention from material historians and ethnologists. At this time, only one generation after the signing of the treaties, prairie Indians had been confined to reserves for thirty years, living in poverty under an oppressively paternalistic regime, yet they enlisted in numbers comparative to other Canadians, and acquitted themselves with honour."--Amazon.

Description

viii, 123 pages : [8] pages of plates, portraits ; 25 cm;

Biblio Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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