“My mother [Eva] told me he used to go behind enemy lines, rub shoulders with the enemy forces and never get caught. … He was always saying how we have to live in harmony with all living things in this world.—Duncan Pegahmagabow”

—  Francis Pegahmagabow

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[harv, June 30, 2005, 2005, http://www.vac-acc.gc.ca/remembers/sub.cfm?source=history/other/native/peaceful, Native Soldiers - Foreign Battlefields, Veterans Affairs Canada, 2010-05-11, Veterans Affairs Canada]

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