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RSN: 000060717622 ISBN: 9781742235394 (paperback) Call Number: 355.00899915094 Edition: 1st. Attachments: xv, 445 pages, 48 unnumbered pages of plates :illustrations, maps, plates, photographs ;24 cm. Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index. Summary: After decades of silence, Serving Our Country is the first comprehensive history of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people’s participation in the Australian defence forces. While Indigenous Australians have enlisted in the defence forces since the Boer War, for much of this time they defied racist restrictions and were denied full citizenship rights on their return to civilian life. In Serving Our Country Mick Dodson, John Maynard, Joan Beaumont, Noah Riseman, Alison Cadzow, and others, reveal the courage, resilience, and trauma of Indigenous defence personnel and their families, and document the long struggle to gain recognition for their role in the defence of Australia. Subject: World War, 1914-1918--Participation, Torres Strait Islander. Civil rights Aboriginal Australian soldiers. Citizenship Subject: Australia--History, Military. Australia--Armed Forces--Aboriginal Australians Australia--Race relations. ------------------------------ 920396540 Available at Grenfell Non Fiction WAR 355.00899915 BEA -----------------------------------------------