Charles "Checker" Tomkins (8 January 1918 – 2003) was a Canadian Métis code talker.
[1][2] Born in Grouard, Alberta, Tomkins was a fluent speaker of the Cree language.
Shortly after marrying Lena Anderson, he enlisted in the armed forces and was shipped overseas during the Second World War.
He helped develop a Cree-language code to report aircraft sightings.
[1] After the war he re-enlisted and served in a number of different regiments for 25 years, eventually being promoted to corporal.