 A new book is out by Timothy C. Winegard (For King and Kanata: Canadian Indians and the First World War) that looks at the critical role Canada’s First Nations people played in the first great war. Winegard, a veteran of the Canadian Forces, has written a powerful book that was long overdue.As Canada’s History notes in its reviewhere, “at the core of the book is the question of why First Peoples would fight in a war overseas when they were so poorly treated at home, without full democratic rights, marginalized on reserves, and victimized as wards of the state. |
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