Great War, Great Warriors?
An insightful new history of indigenous soldiers in World War One May 2012
The study of Indigenous wartime service in Canadian military forces has expanded significantly since the mid 1990s, when only Fred Gaffen’s venerable, if anecdotal, Forgotten Soldiers complemented a small and eclectic batch of government reports and masters theses. The growing politicization around indigenous soldiers’ access to veterans’ benefits and recognition following the world wars and…