| The First World War affected many Native nations throughout Canada, none so more than the Six Nations of the Grand River Territory. The Six Nations' participation in the war was interpreted, by many people outside the Grand River community, as the Six Nations accepting their role not as an autonomous nation outside the jurisdiction of the Canadian state, but as Canadian and British subjects. This theory has been propagated by scholars like G. Elmore Reaman, Sally M. Weaver, and John Moses. By examining local sources through Robert Rutherdale's Hometown Horizons theory, however, the Six Nations participation in the war can be interpreted as the Six Nations upholding their traditional military alliance with the British Crown within a post-traditional society. |
