Canadian Forces Target Aboriginal Youth

“I went to war because there were no jobs on the reservation.”
Wilson Keedah Snr., WW2 Navajo ‘code-talker’
(Warriors: Navajo Code Talkers, p. 56)

“The Conference Board of Canada predicts that 920,000 First Nations people will be of working age in 2006… More & more are awakening to this realization, and are taking steps to recruit, train and retain First Nations people…”
(The Canadian Forces & Aboriginal Peoples, Special Edition, Winter 2003, p. 3)