11/08/2025
Today is National Aboriginal Veterans Day. We honour the thousands of our men and women who enlisted and fought during the world wars. If you would like to honour our Indigenous veterans and learn more about their sacrifices, click the link to watch Forgotten Warriors, a documentary by our Founder and Creative Director, Loretta Todd.
https://www.nfb.ca/film/forgotten_warriors/
A quote from Harry Lavallee, Leader of Aboriginal Veterans Association at the Royal Commission in 1993: “Bless you, comrades, who gave your lives; bless you, veterans, of the First and Second World Wars who have fought to be recognized; who have been instrumental in organizing our people in the courts, in prison, in schools, on the streets, fighting for our rights, while our heroes have died in the wars -- in the streets, hospitals and prisons. Thank you fighting for our rights in this country, for land, for jobs and for education, yet our veterans are not recognized as First Nations people as owners of this land.”