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Nature knows no color line pdf8/30/2023 As veterans, they expected material benefit and recognition for their sacrifices, and support for killed or wounded soldiers and their families. Military service suspended soldiers Indian status temporarily, and this experience created a new set of expectations for Indigenous men upon their return home. Their war service created a fundamentally different and important legal relationship with the state from other soldiers or Indigenous peoples. This study contends that Indigenous veterans relationship with the state in the interwar period was more complicated than previously thought. The prevailing assumption is that Indigenous veterans were not an influential group politically, socially, or culturally and Indigenous veterans political awakening occurred only in the mid-1940s. But their acceptance of the idea that Indigenous veterans were victims of discrimination has led them to overlook the unique nature of these Indigenous peoples identities as Indians and veterans. Historians have rightly considered the period from 1914 to 1939 as the time when Canadian Indigenous soldiers and veterans of the First World War faced unique challenges because of their legal status as Indians.
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