Mistreated War Veterans: First Nations Deserved Better (Feature‪)‬

Despite their willingness to risk their lives fighting for King and Country, Native Canadian veterans of the Great War returned home to a land where they endured second-class citizen status During both World Wars thousands of Indian natives, living on and off reserves, enlisted in the Canadian Armed Forces. Many lost their lives, and although these tragedies happened to thousands of non-Indians as well, the Indians became subjected to differing and unjust treatment for the benefits and other rights that accrued to non-Indian men and women. They were an identifiable racial minority, subjected to the whims and idiosyncrasies of bureaucrats and government officials primarily because of their status among us as wards of the state.