Indigenous Peoples of the British Dominions

and the First World War

This pioneering comparative history of the participation of indigen-

ous peoples of the British empire in the First World War is based
upon archival research in four continents. It provides the i rst com-
prehensive 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 segrega-
tion, and their desire to attain equality through service and sacriice.
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 battleield and the home front and shared equally in the horrors
and burdens of the First World War.

T I M O T H Y C . W I N E G A R D is a Lecturer in the Department of

First Nations Studies at the University of Western Ontario and a
Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of History at the University of
Waterloo, Ontario. His books include Oka: A Convergence of Cultures
and the Canadian Forces (2008) and For King and Kanata: Canadian
Indians and the First World War (2011).

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 Indigenous Peoples of the
British Dominions and the
First World War

Timothy C. Winegard

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