A monument commemorating Indigenous veterans in downtown Regina will now be available to all, thanks to a new interactive website. Living Honour has launched, giving viewers a detailed, 360-degree view of the monument, as well as information about the history of Indigenous veterans. Charity Marsh, department head of creative technologies & design at the University of Regina, said the website is intended to give people the option to view the monument from anywhere. “Helping it become accessible to people around the world and helping perhaps to educate some of the key experiences that we know have at times been left out,” she said. The monument was unveiled May 3, 2025. “Honour,” is displayed in Cree, Saulteaux, Lakota, Dakota, Nakota, Dene and Michif. The monument is meant to honour Indigenous veterans who went to war representing Canada, and the treatment they received when they returned home. Indigenous veterans were denied or prevented from accessing the same benefits and opportunities available to other veterans. Tracy Desjarlais is the president of the Saskatchewan First Nations Veterans Association. She was a part of getting the monument designed and built. Desjarlais hopes the monument will be used as a learning tool on how Indigenous veterans were treated in the past. “Our grandchildren and their grandchildren. Hopefully that monument will still be there,” said Desjarlais. “As something the children can still learn from to understand how the veterans were treated. How our people were treated upon returning to the country,” she added. Talks of the Living Honour website started over a year ago. The website was built by five U of R students. Also included on the site are interviews from veterans, soldiers, and family members. “This interactive experience is really about bringing people to the place anywhere in the world. That idea was at the heart of it,” Marsh said. The website was created in partnership between the Royal United Services Institute and the U of R’s faculty of media, art, and performance. The Indigenous Veterans Monument provided sponsorship.
