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Defending Whose Country? - Indigenous Soldiers in the Pacific War (Hardcover)
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Defending Whose Country? - Indigenous Soldiers in the Pacific War (Hardcover)
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In the campaign against Japan in the Pacific during the Second
World War, the armed forces of the United States, Australia,
and the Australian colonies of Papua and New Guinea made use
of indigenous peoples in new capacities. The United States had long
used American Indians as soldiers and scouts in frontier conflicts
and in wars with other nations. With the advent of the Navajo Code
Talkers in the Pacific theater, Native servicemen were now being
employed for contributions that were unique to their Native
cultures. In contrast, Australia, Papua, and New Guinea had long
attempted to keep indigenous peoples out of the armed forces
altogether. With the threat of Japanese invasion, however, they
began to bring indigenous peoples into the military as guerilla
patrollers, coastwatchers, and regular soldiers. Defending Whose
Country? is a comparative study of the military participation of
Papua New Guineans, Yolngu, and Navajos in the Pacific theater. In
examining the decisions of state and military leaders to bring
indigenous peoples into military service, as well as the decisions
of indigenous individuals to serve in the armed forces, Noah
Riseman reconsiders the impact of the largely forgotten
contributions of indigenous soldiers in the Second World War.
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