Mike Mountain Horse - My Canadian War Hero - SACPA - May 11th, 2023
Channel: Southern Alberta Council on Public Affairs
Date: 2023-06-02

A tribute to a World War I Warrior. The presentation will provide an example of racism that was wrong then and continues to be wrong today …… high and unequivocal praise for Mike Mountain Horse, an inspiring and courageous Warrior who was buried for four days and wounded three times in World War I. After his service, he was elected a minor chief of his tribal Nation and elected a president of a Lethbridge railway union.

Speaker: Tom Sindlinger
Moderator: Bob Campbell

Tom Sindlinger spent twenty-three years with his sociological grandfather Mike Mountain Horse, and his biological grandmother Mary Mountain Horse, in the displaced persons’ neighborhood of Lethbridge, to teepees just inside the Calgary Stampede main gate, to the Sun Dance at Belly Flats. He served as a Select Committee Member of the Alberta Heritage Savings Trust Fund and was the only Member of the Alberta Legislative Assembly to vocally support the patriation of the Canadian Constitution and the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. He is an International Economic Analyst with a focus on marketing and transportation of natural resources, and governance.

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@Southern Alberta Council on Public Affairs @Lethbridge Senior Citizens Organization  @UofL 

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