Today is National Indigenous Veterans Day in Canada.
Lheildi T’enneh Elder Clifford Quaw has a special interest in WWII history, not only because he loves learning but because he’s known so many northern B.C. Indigenous veterans personally.
“We don't have one left. We always remembered what they had done, all the sacrifices, and what they went through, hell, just so we can have the freedom we have today,” said Quaw. Skilled soldiers Quaw explained that First Nations soldiers brought special skills to the battlefield like their ability to get the lay of the land, they were crack shots and well versed in reconnaissance.Indigenous soldiers were also used as code talkers as they would translate sensitive radio messages into Indigenous languages like Cree or Dakelh so they could not be understood if they were intercepted by the enemy.
Quaw said he learned later that William Nooski, who was from Nadleh, was in the first Canadian dividson a paratrooper, same with Dave Benoit from Nak’azdli and Alec Paul from Saik’uz was in the Canadian Seaforth Highlanders. It was not until 1995, fifty years after the Second World War that Indigenous Peoples were allowed to lay Remembrance Day wreaths at the National War Memorial to remember and honour their dead comrades.
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