Indigenous Peoples of the British Dominions and the First World WarThis 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. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
1 Colonization and the settler state | 13 |
2 Racial constructs and martial theories | 34 |
3 Precedents of military pragmatism | 45 |
4 Dominion defence acts | 60 |
5 1914 Subjugated spectators | 68 |
6 19151916 King and country call | 97 |
7 19171918 All the Kings men | 149 |
Other editions - View all
Indigenous Peoples of the British Dominions and the First World War Timothy C. Winegard Limited preview - 2011 |
Indigenous Peoples of the British Dominions and the First World War Timothy C. Winegard No preview available - 2014 |
Common terms and phrases
Aboriginal African Native Labour Allen American Indians Army Auckland August Australia Beothuk Boer Botha British Campbell Canada Canadian Expeditionary Force Canadian Indians Canadian Military Cape casualties Chief Colonial Office coloured combat conscription Corps December Defence Duncan Campbell Scott Empire enlistment European Expeditionary Force Fighting France Gallipoli German Glen Campbell Godley Grundlingh half-castes imperial Indian Act Indian Affairs indigenous Islands January John Shiwak King Labrador Lackenbauer land London Manitoba Maori Contingent Maori soldiers Memorandum Métis Military Service Act Ministry of Militia NASA Native Affairs Native Labour Contingent Ngati November October Ojibwa Ottawa overseas Pakeha PANL participation Patriotic Pioneer Battalion political population Queensland race racial recruiting reel Reserve SANLC SANNC Scott September 1914 served settlers Six Nations South Africa South African Native Toronto Treaty tribes troops Union units University Press veterans volunteers Warriors Western Front World