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In 1939, during the beginning of the war, over 3000 Indigenous men enlisted in the war, but due to the discrimination against indigenous people they were often uncredited as it is believed closer to 4000 indigenous peoples enlisted. -
At the beginning of the war, indigenous people were not aloud to join the the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) because in order to apply you must've been of "pure European Decent" -
Up until 1942 you had to be "pure European" to join the RCAF until 1942. By this time around midway through the war, there were now 29 Indigenous men in the RCAF and 1,800 in the army. Although more and more were being let into these forces, they were still much less likely to be selected compared to a white European man and this continued until the end of the war. -
It took a long time for the Indigenous people to see any positive change in their rights and as a Canadian person. Unfortunately during the second world war they did not see much positive change and were not held to the same standard as white Canadians.
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Canada promised a fund to help support returning Veterans to get a job, and was giving those families extra money to help them stabilize, but Indigenous people were cut short. This led to many conflicts among the indigenous community and Indigenous leaders fought for these rights in the coming years which led to the right to vote, and an apology from Stephen Harper on behalf of the Canadian government much later on in early 2000's.