Quiet Hero: The Ira Hayes Story Okanagan Only then can Canada acknowledge

Only then can Canada acknowledge Aboriginal Peoples inherent rights and their goal of self-determination

from better employment opportunities to the recognition of nationhood

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Paul was born in 1938 on the Indian Brook Reserve

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Quiet Hero: The Ira Hayes Story Okanagan Only then can Canada acknowledgeQuiet Hero: The Ira Hayes Story is the story of the remarkable Pima soldier Ira Hayes and his life. Born in 1923 Ira Hayes grew up on the Gila River Reservation in Arizona with his parents and brothers. Life on the reservation was hard but Ira and his family made a living as cotton farmers. As a teen Ira was sent to Phoenix Indian School in 1940. This was a boarding school (residential school) run by the government. The regimented living conditions at