The Red Man's On the Warpath: The Image of the "Indian" and the Second World War.(Book review)

R. Scott Sheffield. The Red Man's On the Warpath: The Image of the "Indian" and the Second World War. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2004. 240 pp. $85.00 cloth, $29.95 paperback.

The Red Man's On the Warpath analyzes the evolution of stereotypes and popular images of First Nations peoples in Canada from 1930 until 1948. Facing the challenges of the Great Depression, World War II, and postwar demobilization and reconstruction, Canadians were forced to "reexamine and reimagine themselves, their values, and their wider world" (10). Examining popular conceptions of ...

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