Flypasts set for National Indigenous Veterans Day

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The Royal Canadian Air Force is marking National Indigenous Veterans Day with three flypasts Friday.

A Bell 412CF helicopter from 3 Canadian Forces Flying Training School will conduct a flypast at 11:05 a.m. over the Royal Canadian Legion and Hillside Memorial Cemetery in Portage la Prairie followed by flypasts over Dakota Tipi First Nation, Long Plain First Nation and Dakota Plains First Nation.

National Indigenous Veterans Day, established in 1994, honours the contributions and sacrifices made by First Nations, Inuit and Métis in the Canadian military.