{"id":1016,"date":"2017-11-03T07:00:48","date_gmt":"2017-11-03T14:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/inman-library\/?p=1016"},"modified":"2017-10-31T11:52:39","modified_gmt":"2017-10-31T18:52:39","slug":"honouring-our-aboriginal-veterans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/inman-library\/2017\/11\/03\/honouring-our-aboriginal-veterans\/","title":{"rendered":"Honouring our Aboriginal Veterans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some of our most decorated Veterans are aboriginal people. Indigenous people have a long and proud tradition of military service in Canada. From the earliest days before Canada was even a country of its own, through the First and Second World Wars, the Korean War, post-war peace support efforts, Afghanistan and on to the present day, thousands of First Nations, M\u00e9tis, Inuit and other Indigenous men and women have served bravely and well in uniform.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/n2Z6RSKbrw0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" gesture=\"media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.veterans.gc.ca\/eng\/remembrance\/memorials\/national-inventory-canadian-memorials\/details\/7972\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">National Aboriginal Veterans Monument<\/a>&nbsp;located in Ottawa.<\/p>\n<p>What would a monument to brave Aboriginal Veterans look like if you were the one who designed it? What kind of&nbsp;animals and symbols would you use? Here is your big chance! Why don\u2019t you take a sheet of paper and design, draw&nbsp;and colour your own monument to these Canadian heroes!&nbsp; Download&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.veterans.gc.ca\/eng\/remembrance\/information-for\/educators\/learning-modules\/aboriginal-veterans\/colour\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">National Aboriginal Veterans Monument Student Activity<\/a>&nbsp;and colour.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1hc4_oMl4Fo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" gesture=\"media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of our most decorated Veterans are aboriginal people. Indigenous people have a long and proud tradition of military service in Canada. From the earliest days before Canada was even a country of its own, through the First and Second &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/inman-library\/2017\/11\/03\/honouring-our-aboriginal-veterans\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[56,49,55],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/inman-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/inman-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/inman-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/inman-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/inman-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1016"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/inman-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1130,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/inman-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016\/revisions\/1130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/inman-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/inman-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/inman-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}