Last living Second World War 'code talker' honoured in Ottawa

Raymond Oakes learned his father, Levi, was a living legend from a radio report.
Levi, 93, is the last surviving Second World War Mohawk “code talker,” one of a small group of Indigenous veterans who served with the U.S. military, using their tribal languages for secret communications.
But Levi and the other code talkers were sworn to secrecy, a shroud of silence that wasn’t lifted by the U.S. Government until 1968 and even then wasn’t widely known for another three decad