By George Lee, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, The Macleod Gazette Honouring the service of Indigenous veterans in Canada unlocks a story steeped in irony and inequality, the legislature was reminded in the lead-up to Remembrance Day. First Nations, Métis and Inuit military personnel stood up to oppression in two world wars for a country that continued to deny Indigenous people basic rights and freedoms at home, Brooks Arcand-Paul told his colleagues in advance of National Indigenous Veterans Day on Sunday, Nov. 8. Pte. Mary Greyeyes from Muskeg Lake Cree Nation in Saskatchewan joined the Canadian Women’s Army Corps in 1942, becoming the first Indigenous woman in any branch of the country’s military. The air force and navy weren’t options for Greyeyes. Although both did accept women, recruits had to be…
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