In 1991, a group of indigenous veterans went to the November 11 ceremonies to lay a wreath, and they were refused. They were told that they were not welcome and that they could do it after everybody left. I believe it was the Congress of Aboriginal Peoples that got some funding and decided that it was going to rectify the whole situation.
I was working at The St. Norbert Foundation. A gentleman came in with two elders and said, “Would you do some typing for me?” I said, “Sure.” I helped him pull together their constitution bylaws. The next thing I knew, I had been elected as the new secretary-treasurer for the Manitoba Aboriginal Veterans Association.
That meant that on August 22 we came here to Ottawa for the national meeting. I ended up being being nominated as “the lady in the pink sweater” as vice-president of the National Aboriginal Veterans Association. They didn't even know my name. At the end of the—