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The Red Man's on the Warpath : The Image of the Indian and the Second World War.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Press, 2004Copyright date: ©2004Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (240 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780774851114
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Red Man's on the WarpathDDC classification:
  • 940.53/089/97071
LOC classification:
  • D810.I5 -- S54 2004eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 The Image of the "Indian" in English Canada, 1930- 39 -- 2 The "Administrative Indian" as Soldier and Conscript, 1939- 45 -- 3 The "Public Indian" Goes to War, September 1939- December 1941 -- 4 Winning the War Only to Lose the Peace? Reconstructing the " Public Indian," 1943- 45 -- 5 The "Administrative Indian" at the Threshold of Peace, January- March 1946 -- 6 Into the Arena: Marshalling the Competing Indian Images in Postwar Canada, 1945- 48 -- 7 Whither the "Indian"? The Special Joint Senate and House of Commons Committee to Reconsider the Indian Act, 1946- 48 -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: This book explores how wartime symbolism and imagery propelled the "Indian problem" onto the national agenda, and why assimilation remained the goal of post-war Canadian Indian policy - even though the war required that it be rationalized in new ways.
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 The Image of the "Indian" in English Canada, 1930- 39 -- 2 The "Administrative Indian" as Soldier and Conscript, 1939- 45 -- 3 The "Public Indian" Goes to War, September 1939- December 1941 -- 4 Winning the War Only to Lose the Peace? Reconstructing the " Public Indian," 1943- 45 -- 5 The "Administrative Indian" at the Threshold of Peace, January- March 1946 -- 6 Into the Arena: Marshalling the Competing Indian Images in Postwar Canada, 1945- 48 -- 7 Whither the "Indian"? The Special Joint Senate and House of Commons Committee to Reconsider the Indian Act, 1946- 48 -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

This book explores how wartime symbolism and imagery propelled the "Indian problem" onto the national agenda, and why assimilation remained the goal of post-war Canadian Indian policy - even though the war required that it be rationalized in new ways.

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