The Red Man's on the Warpath : The Image of the Indian and the Second World War.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (240 pages)
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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World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Indian. World War, 1939-1945 -- Indians. Indians of North America -- Canada -- Public opinion -- History -- 20th century. Stereotypes (Social psychology). Public opinion -- Canada -- History -- 20th century.