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. World War, 1914-1918 -- Participation, Torres Strait Islander. | Civil rights -- Australia. | Aboriginal Australian soldiers. | Citizenship -- Australia. | World War, 1914-1918 -- Participation, Aboriginal Australian. | World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Aboriginal Australian. | World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Torres Strait Islander. | South African War, 1899-1902 -- Participation, Aboriginal Australian. | Australia -- History, Military. | Australia -- Armed Forces -- Aboriginal Australians. | Australia -- Armed Forces -- Aboriginal Australians -- History. | Australia -- Race relations. | Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander content