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For King and Kanata

2012 History
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Release : 2012
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis For King and Kanata by : Timothy Charles Winegard

Download or read book For King and Kanata written by Timothy Charles Winegard. This book was released on 2012. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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.

For King and Kanata : Canadian Indians and the First World War

2014
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Release : 2014
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Download or read book For King and Kanata : Canadian Indians and the First World War written by . This book was released on 2014. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An analysis of the role of Canada's Aboriginal soldiers in the First World War.

Sounding Thunder

2016-09-09 Biography & Autobiography
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Release : 2016-09-09
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Synopsis Sounding Thunder by : Brian D. McInnes

Download or read book Sounding Thunder written by Brian D. McInnes. This book was released on 2016-09-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Francis Pegahmagabow (1889–1952), a member of the Ojibwe nation, was born in Shawanaga, Ontario. Enlisting at the onset of the First World War, he became the most decorated Canadian Indigenous soldier for bravery and the most accomplished sniper in North American military history. After the war, Pegahmagabow settled in Wasauksing, Ontario. He served his community as both chief and councillor and belonged to the Brotherhood of Canadian Indians, an early national Indigenous political organization. Francis proudly served a term as Supreme Chief of the National Indian Government, retiring from office in 1950. Francis Pegahmagabow’s stories describe many parts of his life and are characterized by classic Ojibwe narrative. They reveal aspects of Francis’s Anishinaabe life and worldview. Interceding chapters by Brian McInnes provide valuable cultural, spiritual, linguistic, and historic insights that give a greater context and application for Francis’s words and world. Presented in their original Ojibwe as well as in English translation, the stories also reveal a rich and evocative relationship to the lands and waters of Georgian Bay. In Sounding Thunder, Brian McInnes provides new perspective on Pegahmagabow and his experience through a unique synthesis of Ojibwe oral history, historical record, and Pegahmagabow family stories.

Empire from the Margins

2017-11-29 Religion
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Release : 2017-11-29
Genre : Religion
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Book Synopsis Empire from the Margins by : Gordon L. Heath

Download or read book Empire from the Margins written by Gordon L. Heath. This book was released on 2017-11-29. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the beginning of the twentieth century, there were a number of smaller religious bodies that sought to develop religious and national identity on the margins--something especially difficult when the nation was at war in South Africa. This book examines rich and varied extant sources that provide helpful windows into the wartime experience of Canada's religious minorities. Those groups on the margins experienced internal struggles and external pressures related to issues of loyalty and identity. How each faith tradition addressed those challenges was shaped by their own dominant personalities, ethnic identity, history, tradition, and theological convictions. Responses were fluid, divided, and rarely unanimous. Those seeking to address such issues not only had to deal with internal expectations and tensions, but also construct a public response that would satisfy often hostile and vocal external critics. Some positions evolved over time, leading to new identities, loyalties, and trajectories. In all cases, being on the margins meant dealing with two dominant national and imperial narratives--English or French--both bolstered respectively by powerful Anglo-Saxon Protestantism or French Quebec Catholicism. The chapters in this book examine how those on the margins sought to do just that.

Living with War

2016-01-01 History
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Release : 2016-01-01
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Living with War by : Robert Teigrob

Download or read book Living with War written by Robert Teigrob. This book was released on 2016-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Living with War, Robert Teigrob examines how war is experienced and remembered on both sides of the 49th parallel.

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