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Alberta and Me

From a land of oil, true enough

Referendum? What Referendum?

A constitutional expert argues that the federal insistence on clarity has paid off

The Grey Plateau

When the world stopped five years ago

R. Scott Sheffield

R. Scott Sheffield is a member of the Department of History at the University of the Fraser Valley. He is the author of The Red Man’s on the Warpath: The Image of the “Indian” and the Second World War (University of British Columbia Press, 2004), in addition to numerous other works on indigenous military service in Canada, New Zealand and elsewhere.

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R. Scott Sheffield

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…