By Clint Fleury, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, TBnewswatch.com THUNDER BAY — A nearly week-long exhibit at Lakehead University’s Agora continues to shine a light on the experiences of First Nations, Métis and Inuit soldiers from the Northwest. Lakehead University and the Native Veterans Association of Northwestern Ontario are hosting the annual commemorative exhibits during Veterans’ Week and in honour of National Indigenous Veterans Day. The latter was on Sunday Nov. 8. “To have reconciliation between First Nations and the settler population across this country, we have to speak our truth of what we’ve endured and experienced,” says David Thompson, researcher and volunteer with the Native Veterans Association of Northwestern Ontario. The organization was founded by the late Second World War veteran Charles “Willy” John of the Red Rock Indian Band…
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