Ep. #256. Karen Margaret Braun-Prince, Daughter of the Legendary war hero, Sgt. Tommy Prince

Karen Margaret Braun-Prince, Daughter of Tommy Prince Thomas George Prince MM (October 25, 1915 – November 25,1977) was an Indigenous Canadian war hero and Canada's most decorated First Nations soldier, serving in World War II and the Korean War He was the most decorated soldier in the First Special Service Force or Devil's Brigade during World War II. Tommy Prince was descended from First Nations chiefs who had negotiated treaty rights with Crown representatives, and Prince himself would also represent First Nations concerns in Ottawa as Chairman of the Manitoba Indian Association. He advocated for the abolition of the governing Indian Act in Canada and proposed respect for the traditional Crown treaties as the basis of First Nations rights. Prince's position, although deemed radical at the time, has been supported in subsequent decades by Supreme Court of Canada rulings and is now the basis of government policy.