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Indigenous Community Recruitment
around August 1914 and December 1915, there weren't much first nations recruited for world war one because the government was hesitant due to believing that the Germans would not provide them civilized warfare but that didn't last long due to 200 first nations being able to enlist. -
Edith Monture
Edith was the first indigenous woman to be a nurse in the first world war and also has the right to vote in the election. she's the first indigenous woman that served in the united states army. because of all this achievements she has a street and a park to her name. -
Francis Pegahmagabow
Francis is the Anishinaabe (Ojibwe) chief, indigenous rights advocate and war hero that was one of the highly decorated indigenous people in canada during world war I and he became a vocal advocate for indigenous rights and self-determination. -
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indigenous community recruitment
around this time not a lot of first nations men volunteered and the army was hesitant too because they feared the Germans would refuse to provide civilized warfare to canada but this didn't last long because around 200 managed to get enlisted. -
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Home front
during the home front, Inuits, Metis and first nations experiences on the home front was a lot and people helped in charitable ways in that time as well as the king, British empire and the national war efforts and this created a great opportunity that was war related work and many abnormal people took it on enthusiastically. -
The end of world war I
when the war ended, the indigenous veterans thought they'd be coming back to a better world and they were disappointed because even the war didn't change their social and economical status and they were already been as veterans to look upon, they were really shut out of the privileges that the other veterans received.