Indigenous Peoples and the Second World War: The Politics, Experiences and Legacies of War in the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand

✍ Scribed by R. Scott Sheffield, Noah Riseman

Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Year: 2019
Tongue: English
Leaves: 367
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

During the Second World War, Indigenous people in the United States, Australia, New Zealand and Canada mobilised en masse to support the war effort, despite withstanding centuries of colonialism. Their roles ranged from ordinary soldiers fighting on distant shores, to soldiers capturing Japanese prisoners on their own territory, to women working in munitions plants on the home front. R. Scott Sheffield and Noah Riseman examine Indigenous experiences of the Second World War across these four settler societies. Informed by theories of settler colonialism, martial race theory and military sociology, they show how Indigenous people and their communities both shaped and were shaped by the Second World War. Particular attention is paid to the policies in place before, during and after the war, highlighting the ways that Indigenous people negotiated their own roles within the war effort at home and abroad.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Imprints Page
Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
Foreword
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
Settler Colonialism
Historiography
Transnational and Comparative History
Martial Race Theory
Book Layout
Part I Context
1 Indigenous Peoples and Settler Colonialism to 1900
Confrontation
Carceration
Assimilation
Conclusion: Legal Status Circa 1901
2 Indigenous Peoples and Settler Militaries, 1900–1945
From Indigenous Warriors to Indigenous Soldiers
The Great War
Interwar
Second World War
Conclusion
Part II The War Years, 1939–1945
3 Engagement: Indigenous Voluntary Military Service
The Nature of Indigenous Military Service
Rejecting Enlistees
Segregated versus Integrated Service
Message and Meaning of Indigenous Voluntary Service
Conclusion
4 Experiences of Military Life
Expanded Interaction and Acculturation
Adjusting to Military life
Segregation Proposals to Aid Transition
Transitions to Service Life
Acceptance and Respect
Combat Experiences
Conclusion
5 Mobilising Indigeneity: Indigenous Knowledge, Language and Culture in the War Effort
Real and Perceived Fighting Spirit/Ability
The 28th (Maori) Battalion
Indigenous Language: Code Talkers
Home Defence and Soldier-Bodies: Torres Strait Light Infantry Battalion and Pacific Coast Militia Rangers
Home Defence through Tradition: Alaska and Australia
Informal Home Defence
Conclusion
6 Home Front Experiences
Continuity and Discontinuity of Discrimination
For Those Left Behind
Urbanisation
Participation in Voluntarism
Women, Gender and Sexuality
War and Development Invade Remote Regions
Home-Front, Bombings and Evacuations
Conclusion
7 Contesting Engagement: Conscription and the Limits of Indigenous Collaboration
Common Factors Underlying Wartime Resistance or Indifference
Settler-Indigenous Relations in Wartime
Indigenous Lands and War Purposes
Voluntary Military Service
Conscription
Conclusion
Part III Post-War Reform
8 Homecomings: Transition to Peace, Veterans’ Return and Access to Veterans’ Benefits
Wartime to Peacetime for Indigenous Populations on the Home Front
Homecomings
Veterans’ Benefits
Conclusion
9 Rehabilitating Assimilation: Post-War Reconstruction and Indigenous Policy Reform
Indigenous Politicisation and Activism at War’s End
Settler Attitudes towards Indigenous Peoples
Post-War Reform
Conclusion
Conclusion
Bibliography
Manuscript, Archival and Library Collections
Unpublished Theses
Books, Book Chapters and Journal Articles
Index

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