Veterans and loved ones gathered at the Spirit Garden outside Toronto’s city hall on Saturday for a ceremony honouring Indigenous veterans.

With beaded poppies, music and sacred offerings, about 100 attendees paid homage to the lives lost in service.

Indigenous Veterans Day was first commemorated in 1994 and is celebrated across the country on Nov. 8.

Rob Baskey, senator for the Métis Nation of Ontario Veterans Council, said Indigenous Veterans Day honours Indigenous members of the military, but also remembers the injustice they faced.

“The way it started was, some Mohawk warriors weren't allowed to lay a wreath at the cenotaph,” Baskey said.

Baskey, who was deployed to the United Nations Mission in South Sudan in 2012, carried the e agle staff in Saturday’s ceremony. He said the r

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