Does anyone know about a regiment of Native Americans who fought in WWI from Texas?
i’d be interested to find out myself. from any state actually. there is very little written about indigenous people in ww1 or 2 for that matter until recently with the very late and deserved recognition of code talkers. in ww1 we had not yet be granted citizenship. i also found you comment about being enemies of the state interesting. there is evidence the government still considers us such. “During the first Gulf War, Brigadier General Richard Neal, briefing reporters in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, stated that the U.S. military wanted to be certain of speedy victory once they committed land forces to “Indian Country.” The following day, in a narrowly publicized statement of protest, the National Congress of American Indians pointed out that 15,000 Native Americans were serving as combat troops in the Gulf. Since General Neal’s comment, however, the term “Indian Country” has become military slang that is often used by troops and leaders on the ground in Iraq and Afghanistan. This linguistic
