Indigenous WWI

Still your mind, steal your gut, open your heart: Iron Peggy premieres at the Children’s Festival

By: Alison Wick, Arts Editor “They fought so we could be who we are meant to be. We have to stand up for who we are, and for those that came before us. We have to stand up for each other. It’s something worth fighting for.” ~ Peg, Iron Peggy Over one hundred years ago, the First World War saw over 600,000 Canadian men and women enlist to fight overseas. Part of this number were more than 4000 Indigenous people. The number is a conservative estimate, as the government at the time only recorded Indigenous soldiers who had status even…

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