"Until We Receive Just Treatment": The Fight Against Conscription at the Naas Agency and British Columbia, 1917-1918 ...
Among the flood of Native protests against the imposition of conscription during the First World War, Tsimshian and Nisga’a of the Naas Agency used the expediency and publicity surrounding the question of conscription to (re)present their challenge to the provincial and federal governments over the...
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ftdatacite:10.14288/bcs.v0i167.576 2023-08-27T04:12:23+02:00 "Until We Receive Just Treatment": The Fight Against Conscription at the Naas Agency and British Columbia, 1917-1918 ... McGowan, Katharine A 2010 https://dx.doi.org/10.14288/bcs.v0i167.576 https://ojs.library.ubc.ca/index.php/bcstudies/article/view/576 en eng BC Studies: The British Columbian Quarterly https://dx.doi.org/10.14288/bcs.v0i167 https://dx.doi.org/10.14288/bcs.v0i167.576.g1949 Text article-journal Article ScholarlyArticle 2010 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.14288/bcs.v0i167.57610.14288/bcs.v0i16710.14288/bcs.v0i167.576.g1949 2023-08-07T14:24:23Z Among the flood of Native protests against the imposition of conscription during the First World War, Tsimshian and Nisga’a of the Naas Agency used the expediency and publicity surrounding the question of conscription to (re)present their challenge to the provincial and federal governments over the twin questions of Indian administration and land ownership in British Columbia. Yet this was not simply a new ground for old battles; the tension between the legal status of Native people as defined within the Indian Act and the concept of conscription shaped this specific debate. The arguments Tsimshian, Nisga’a and other Native groups in British Columbia presented against conscription (often although not exclusively through the Committee of Allied Tribes of British Columbia) struck at the heart of the legislative framework of the Department of Indian Affairs with outcomes that extended beyond the province and war. ... : BC Studies: The British Columbian Quarterly, No 167: Autumn 2010 ... Article in Journal/Newspaper Tsimshian Tsimshian* DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) Indian New Ground ENVELOPE(-55.215,-55.215,49.567,49.567) |
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Among the flood of Native protests against the imposition of conscription during the First World War, Tsimshian and Nisga’a of the Naas Agency used the expediency and publicity surrounding the question of conscription to (re)present their challenge to the provincial and federal governments over the twin questions of Indian administration and land ownership in British Columbia. Yet this was not simply a new ground for old battles; the tension between the legal status of Native people as defined within the Indian Act and the concept of conscription shaped this specific debate. The arguments Tsimshian, Nisga’a and other Native groups in British Columbia presented against conscription (often although not exclusively through the Committee of Allied Tribes of British Columbia) struck at the heart of the legislative framework of the Department of Indian Affairs with outcomes that extended beyond the province and war. ... : BC Studies: The British Columbian Quarterly, No 167: Autumn 2010 ... |
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