Description
What prompts a Métis to enlist in an army that his or her family has fought against, not once, but twice? What social and economic pressures were at play at the time? What were their experiences? And, in the end, what did they lose or gain.
Reexamine Canadian History through the memories of Métis enlistees – in training, in combat, in prison camps. Meet Amyotte, Dumont, Fosseneuve, Merrifield, Nicolas, Pelletier, and other Saskatchewan veterans – facing adulthood in the Canadian Armed Forces during wartime.
The stories are told with a gentle humour, and a wry sense of reality. There are facts, there are speculations, there is righteous anger, but there is no bitterness. In the words of one veteran: “I think if you look at it in a broad sense it was worth it, because the Germans were defeated; there was something that we accomplished. The high-ranking officers said we were fighting for freedom and a free country. But … I wonder if that’s true.”
This second edition contains a new preface and information on the National Métis Veterans’ Memorial Monument at Batoche, Saskatchewan.
ISBN: 978-1-988011-21-9
