Event Title
‘Loyal and Civilized’: Aboriginal Soldiers, the Department of Indian Affairs, and the Production of a Collective Memory, 1916-1940
Start Date
12-11-2011 9:00 AM
Description
Brian MacDowall is a PhD Candidate at York University. His dissertation, tentatively entitled “Finding Space for Redress: Veterans, the Government, and Aboriginal Lands in Canada, 1916-1930,” assesses the administration of Aboriginal Great War veterans by the Department of Indian Affairs, focusing on the Aboriginal and Non-Aboriginal use of reserve lands for Re-Establishment purposes.
‘Loyal and Civilized’: Aboriginal Soldiers, the Department of Indian Affairs, and the Production of a Collective Memory, 1916-1940
Brian MacDowall is a PhD Candidate at York University. His dissertation, tentatively entitled “Finding Space for Redress: Veterans, the Government, and Aboriginal Lands in Canada, 1916-1930,” assesses the administration of Aboriginal Great War veterans by the Department of Indian Affairs, focusing on the Aboriginal and Non-Aboriginal use of reserve lands for Re-Establishment purposes.