By Richard Hutton  Local Journalism Initiative Reporter QUEENSTON HEIGHTS-Members of the Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities will mark a milestone this November when they gather in Queenston for National Indigenous Veterans Day. It will be the fifth year that Niagara Parks hosts the Valour & Victory gathering, a public ceremony held at the Landscape of Nations Memorial in Queenston Heights Park. This year’s ceremony takes place on Saturday, Nov. 4, at 1 p.m. in advance of Indigenous Veterans Day, which is on Nov. 8. The event will also mark the seventh anniversary of the unveilling of the memorial in 2016. The number seven is symbolic in Haudenosaunee culture: it’s reflected in the Landscape of Nations memorial, with seven steel arches symbolizing a longhouse, and seven earthen mounds representing nature and signifying the

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