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How proudly the flag waved overhead, the bands played and the troops marched away from the reserves, the isolated villages, the city streets. We were Canadian Native soldiers .

and mostly on foot. In a dozen places—France, Germany, Italy... Japan—we raised our flags, and were buried in those foreign soils.53

Canada declared war on Germany on September 10, 1939, and, for the second time in little more than two decades, the nation's Indigenous population responded quickly.

As the Director of the Indian Affairs Branch of the Department of Mines and Resources noted:

They were not slow to come forward with offers of assistance in both men and money. About one hundred Indians had enlisted by the end of the fiscal year [March 1940] and the contribution of the Indians to the Red Cross and other funds amo