Invisible Women: WWII Aboriginal Servicewomen in Canada

"Although historians have overlooked the WWII Aboriginal experience, there has been some recent interest in documenting the Aboriginal male experience. During WWII, Aboriginal women volunteered from all across Canada, from urban and from rural areas including Reserve communities. There has been absolutely no scholarly writing about the Aboriginal female experience. This book is a beginning to rectify that situation and should be widely available to the public domain in all libraries of Canada. Often mistaken for people of European descent, the heritage of Aboriginal women remained invisible while they served in Canada's WWII military as though no one expected to find an enlisted Aboriginal woman. Of the eighteen unrecognized Aboriginal women who participated in this project, fifteen enlisted in the CWAC (Canadian Women's Army Corps), two in the RCAF WD (Royal Canadian Air Force Women's Division) and one in the WRCNS (Women's Royal Canadian Naval Service)."--Www.onwa-tbay.ca.