{"id":67907,"date":"2021-11-05T13:14:59","date_gmt":"2021-11-05T17:14:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=67907"},"modified":"2021-11-08T15:54:04","modified_gmt":"2021-11-08T20:54:04","slug":"permanent-grave-marking-initiative-commemorates-indigenous-veterans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/permanent-grave-marking-initiative-commemorates-indigenous-veterans\/","title":{"rendered":"Permanent grave marking initiative commemorates Indigenous veterans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Through the Last Post Fund, the Unmarked Grave Program works to provide permanent military markers for eligible veterans who lie in unmarked graves, and there is a specific initiative for Indigenous veterans.<\/p>\n<p>Maria Trujillo, Indigenous program coordinator for the fund, explains why Indigenous veterans, particularly, should be acknowledged with a marker.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou know, Indigenous veterans were a big part of serving for Canada, and I think, slowly now, general Canadian society is aware of this, but I don\u2019t think everyone knows that so many Indigenous veterans participated,\" she said. \"I think through the grave markers, it\u2019s important not only because they are remembered, the veteran, but also because it kind of brings into mainstream consciousness that Indigenous veterans had a huge part to play in the war.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So far, IVI has provided 130 grave markers to veterans\u2019 families for their loved ones over the past two years.<\/p>\n<p>To apply for a maker, go to the Unmarked Grave Program website at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lastpostfund.ca\/unmarked-grave-program\/\">Unmarked Grave Program - Last Post Fund<\/a>\u00a0to review qualifications and to fill out an application, or call 1-800-465-7113 extension 222.<\/p>\n<p>National Indigenous Veterans Day is commemorated on Nov. 8 annually.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Listen to the full CFWE report below for more details about the program:<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Through the Last Post Fund, the Unmarked Grave Program works to provide permanent military markers for eligible veterans who lie in unmarked graves, and there is a specific initiative for Indigenous veterans. Maria Trujillo, Indigenous program coordinator for the fund, explains why Indigenous veterans, particularly, should be acknowledged with a marker. \u201cYou know, Indigenous veterans&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102,"featured_media":67914,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57,219],"tags":[10499,10498,10500],"radio":[9847],"origine":[268,267,228],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67907"}],"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\/102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67907\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67907"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=67907"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=67907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}