When the Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF) began actively enlisting Native men for overseas service in December 1915, the Department of Indian Affairs (DIA) saw an opportunity to further their goal of assimilating Native peoples through active duty. To maximize the number of Native soldiers, the DIA lent Iroquois clerk and translator Charles Cooke to the CEF to help recruit on reserves in Southern Ontario in the winter and spring 1916. During the northern half of Cooke’s tour from Rama to Manitoulin Island, many of the communities he visited took advantage of his connection with the DIA, using the current need for soldiers as a bargaining chip in pre-war disputes with the government. While they used Cooke to further their local concerns, h...
Historians have paid scant attention to the compulsory conscription of men under the National Resour...
Manitoba First Nations Centre for Aboriginal Health Research (MFN-CAHR); Manitoba Network Environmen...
Timothy C. Winegard, 2012, For King and Kanata. Canadian Indians and the First World War, Winnipeg :...
During the First World War Indigenous peoples in Canada contributed to the war effort through enlist...
The First World War triggered opposite reactions from Indigenous men and the Canadian government; th...
Charles Angus Cooke (Thawennensere) (1870-1958) was an Aboriginal artist and writer and a federal ci...
For good or for ill, the white man and the red man in eighteenth century North America were locked i...
It was 24 July 1766, and the eyes of the Ottawa and Wyandot warriors suggested they were displeased ...
legislation has been to do away with the tribal system and to assimilate the Indian people in all re...
The American Revolution not only divided families, friends, and neighbours; it also gave rise to new...
From 1689 to 1726, Massachusetts and Connecticut officials greatly valued the martial abilities of I...
This study examines British-Indian relations in the Great Lakes and Upper Canada between 1783 and 18...
In 1912 a joint federal-provincial Royal Commission on Indian Affairs for the province of British C...
The article examines the policy of Canadian authorities toward the indigenous population (Indian pol...
Reports a study in summer 1958 of cultural changes resulting from establishment of a radar base in t...
Historians have paid scant attention to the compulsory conscription of men under the National Resour...
Manitoba First Nations Centre for Aboriginal Health Research (MFN-CAHR); Manitoba Network Environmen...
Timothy C. Winegard, 2012, For King and Kanata. Canadian Indians and the First World War, Winnipeg :...
During the First World War Indigenous peoples in Canada contributed to the war effort through enlist...
The First World War triggered opposite reactions from Indigenous men and the Canadian government; th...
Charles Angus Cooke (Thawennensere) (1870-1958) was an Aboriginal artist and writer and a federal ci...
For good or for ill, the white man and the red man in eighteenth century North America were locked i...
It was 24 July 1766, and the eyes of the Ottawa and Wyandot warriors suggested they were displeased ...
legislation has been to do away with the tribal system and to assimilate the Indian people in all re...
The American Revolution not only divided families, friends, and neighbours; it also gave rise to new...
From 1689 to 1726, Massachusetts and Connecticut officials greatly valued the martial abilities of I...
This study examines British-Indian relations in the Great Lakes and Upper Canada between 1783 and 18...
In 1912 a joint federal-provincial Royal Commission on Indian Affairs for the province of British C...
The article examines the policy of Canadian authorities toward the indigenous population (Indian pol...
Reports a study in summer 1958 of cultural changes resulting from establishment of a radar base in t...
Historians have paid scant attention to the compulsory conscription of men under the National Resour...
Manitoba First Nations Centre for Aboriginal Health Research (MFN-CAHR); Manitoba Network Environmen...
Timothy C. Winegard, 2012, For King and Kanata. Canadian Indians and the First World War, Winnipeg :...