Indian_War

Indian War What struck me the most when I heard that 17,000 Native Americans had served in the Great War was that, not even thirty years after the end of the Indian wars, American Indians were willing to fight alongside their former enemy. I also was under the impression that most Native Americans had not been American citizens before the American Indian Citizenship Act of 1924 and wondered therefore how they could have been enlisted in the army, but also if their actual enlistment had anything to do with the granting of citizenship to American Indians in 1924. With this in mind, I began to sift through books on American history for anything concerning Native Americans fighting with the American army­and not against it­and on the status of Native Americans in 1917 according to United States law. I also tried to gather sources on the situation of American Indian affairs in the years preceding the Great War Meanwhile, I looked for information on the participation of American Indians in World War I but found american, native, indian, americans, war, indians, great, been, years, participation, one, history, found, forces, exploring, expeditionary, even, citizenship, books, began, anything, after, 1924, yet, world, wondered, willing, while, wars, warriors, visual, varied, united, under, typical