Narratives of Remembrance in an Era of Reconciliation
R. Scott Sheffield, PhD.
Dr. R. Scott Sheffield is an Associate Professor of History at the University of the Fraser Valley who has spent the bulk of his career researching Indigenous military service. He is the author of The Red Man’s on the Warpath: The Image of the ‘Indian’ and the Second World War (UBC Press, 2004), and with Noah Riseman Indigenous Peoples and the Second World War: The Politics, Experiences and Legacies of War in the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand (Cambridge U Press, 2019). He is also the author of numerous articles and book chapters on this subject. His current research explores British Columbia’s home front during the Second World War, especially the role of community in mediating British Columbians’ experience of total war.
Dr. Sheffield’s presentation is entitled Indigenous Peoples in Canada’s Second World War: Narratives of Remembrance in an Era of Reconciliation and is based on his more than 20 years of work and research on the subject of Indigenous military service. This presentation was made to the RUSI-VI luncheon on February 14, 2014.
