{"id":194338,"date":"2023-11-12T12:06:07","date_gmt":"2023-11-12T17:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=194338"},"modified":"2023-11-15T12:06:49","modified_gmt":"2023-11-15T17:06:49","slug":"reflections-on-indigenous-veterans-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/reflections-on-indigenous-veterans-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Local reflections on Indigenous Veterans Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Indigenous Veterans Day (Nov. 8), first observed in 1994, honours Indigenous veterans who fought in wars that Canada has played integral roles in.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Maggi Davies, UFV\u2019s Alumni Engagement Coordinator, says that the relatively new separate day of reflection from the traditional Remembrance Day is an institution \u201cthat Canada is still struggling\u201d to incorporate during this week of remembrance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To Davies, the separate day lets her reflect on ancestors that may have enlisted under false names to avoid disenfranchisement.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cFor my family, it left us wondering who they were, and we have no answers,\u201d Davies says. \u201cHaving a specific day where I can remember those uncles who I don't know those details of - and then having the day November 11th to remember all of the family members that I had that have served, and I know their records, I can find their records - I can honour their contribution.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Chawathil Councilman Aaron Pete believes the day is a unique way to reflect on Indigenous people sharing values with others who fought - a misunderstanding that has led to some contention in Remembrance Day celebrations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cOne of the valuable pieces is there is currently this felt sense by many people that\u2026 Indigenous people are disconnected somehow from society, and that we need to reconcile,\u201d Pete says. \u201cWhat this day shows is that we've been working towards that, and our ancestors have been working towards that for a very long time.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWhen we're talking about Remembrance Day, and thinking about that, despite all of the things that Canada did wrong to Indigenous people, we still fought for the same underlying values, even if Canada wasn't standing up for them, themselves, within their own territory. We were still willing to do that despite all the wrongs that we had experienced, which should speak as\u2026a sign of hope for the future.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Listen here for the full story:<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indigenous Veterans Day (Nov. 8), first observed in 1994, honours Indigenous veterans who fought in wars that Canada has played integral roles in.\u00a0 Maggi Davies, UFV\u2019s Alumni Engagement Coordinator, says that the relatively new separate day of reflection from the traditional Remembrance Day is an institution \u201cthat Canada is still struggling\u201d to incorporate during this&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":116,"featured_media":194565,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57,219,16830],"tags":[980,12412,10499,32587,10400,2701,8174],"radio":[1377],"origine":[1372,280,231],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194338"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/116"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194338"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":194907,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194338\/revisions\/194907"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194338"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=194338"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=194338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}