It was a solemn morning today at the First Nations University of Canada’s Regina campus as war veterans, students and faculty honoured one special veteran and his dream during Aboriginal Veterans Day.
The late Howard Anderson, who passed away last year, was a World War II veteran who served as the grand chief of the Saskatchewan First Nations Veterans Association.
Speakers and veterans at the ceremony this morning acknowledged that it was Anderson’s efforts that led to the completion of the First Nations veterans memorial glass tipi in the middle of the campus.
Veteran Dora Stevenson, who is on the memorial tipi committee, says future plans include television screens that have the names of fallen Aboriginal soldiers who fought in the World Wars and the Korean War.