By Tyler Griffin THE CANADIAN PRESS The Mohawks of the Bay of Quinte have a long history of military service ranging from the First and Second World War to Afghanistan, but Chief Donald Maracle had always known many of the First Nation’s veterans lay in unmarked graves in the community’s cemeteries. Maracle said that’s because many Indigenous veterans who returned from war were not afforded the same benefits provided to other veterans, and their families often couldn’t afford proper headstones commemorating their service to the Crown. “What’s important for Canadians to remember is that native people could not be conscripted into the military because they didn’t have the right to vote during the First World War and Second World War, they were not seen to be British subjects,” he said.

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