https://padlet.com/20earmenta/5c4o0jxfv9v1 en-us 2019-02-22 18:11:42 UTC 2023-04-09 03:01:17 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Tent.png 20flaibwij https://padlet.com/20earmenta/5c4o0jxfv9v1/wish/334267390 2019-02-22 18:17:05 UTC https://padlet.com/20earmenta/5c4o0jxfv9v1/wish/334267390 20flaibwij https://padlet.com/20earmenta/5c4o0jxfv9v1/wish/334267688 On Aug. 3, 1990, President George H. W. Bush declared the month of November as National American Indian Heritage Month]]> 2019-02-22 18:17:45 UTC https://padlet.com/20earmenta/5c4o0jxfv9v1/wish/334267688 20flaibwij https://padlet.com/20earmenta/5c4o0jxfv9v1/wish/334267747 Native American soldiers served in WWI and WWII as the Navajo Code Talkers. In WWII, out of 350,000 American Indians that lived in the U.S., 45,000 enlisted in the armed forces. The Code Talkers took part in every assault the U.S. Marines. The Native American women also served as Women's Army Corps. ]]> 2019-02-22 18:17:52 UTC https://padlet.com/20earmenta/5c4o0jxfv9v1/wish/334267747 20earmenta https://padlet.com/20earmenta/5c4o0jxfv9v1/wish/334658444

Many of the Native American tribes viewed the Confederacy as the better choice due to its opposition to a central federal system which lacked a respect for the sovereignty of Indian nations.

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As listed on Pearl Harbor Day, there were 5,000 Natives in the military. By the end of this historic war, over 24,000 reservation Natives and another 20,000 off-reservation Natives had served. 

]]> 2019-02-25 01:08:18 UTC https://padlet.com/20earmenta/5c4o0jxfv9v1/wish/334658827 20earmenta https://padlet.com/20earmenta/5c4o0jxfv9v1/wish/334659029 Most of the time Native Americans returned as warriors, victorious warriors, and unwilling to accept the secondary status assigned to them by the larger society. They faced discrimination in housing, employment, education, land rights, water rights, and voting.

]]> 2019-02-25 01:09:34 UTC https://padlet.com/20earmenta/5c4o0jxfv9v1/wish/334659029 20earmenta https://padlet.com/20earmenta/5c4o0jxfv9v1/wish/334659380 Indian veterans returned home with different expectations about how they were to be treated. While they had fought tyranny in Europe and in the Pacific and had been treated as equals during this fight, they returned home to find that they were still second-class citizens. The Indian veterans expected to be able to vote and when states attempted to deny them that right, they took their case to the courts. Throughout the country, barriers to Indian voting began to fall.

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https://www.fcpotawatomi.com/news/native-americans-in-the-military-world-war-ii/

https://nativeamericannetroots.net/diary/623

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/13-native-american-issues_us_55b7d801e4b0074ba5a6869c

]]> 2019-02-25 01:23:10 UTC https://padlet.com/20earmenta/5c4o0jxfv9v1/wish/334661351 20flaibwij https://padlet.com/20earmenta/5c4o0jxfv9v1/wish/334695156 The Code talkers who completed their training would get sent to a Marine unit that was deployed in the Pacific theater. They acted as messengers who transmitted information about troop movements and orders in Navajo. They were praised for their accuracy and skill throughout the war.  ]]> 2019-02-25 04:17:56 UTC https://padlet.com/20earmenta/5c4o0jxfv9v1/wish/334695156 20flaibwij https://padlet.com/20earmenta/5c4o0jxfv9v1/wish/334701617 The Native American women did their part by joining the WACS, WAVES, and the Army Nurse Corps or (those who stayed home) handled the jobs originally for men such as farming, mechanics, delivery personnel, etc,.]]> 2019-02-25 04:57:15 UTC https://padlet.com/20earmenta/5c4o0jxfv9v1/wish/334701617 20flaibwij https://padlet.com/20earmenta/5c4o0jxfv9v1/wish/334704244 (Not much is known about Native American Women in WWII) Julia Reeves joined the Army Nurse Corps in 1942. She was in one of the first medical units shipped to the Pacific. She remained there until the victory over Japan happened. Then, she returned to the U.S. where she served in a hospital during the Korean War.]]> 2019-02-25 05:19:58 UTC https://padlet.com/20earmenta/5c4o0jxfv9v1/wish/334704244 20flaibwij https://padlet.com/20earmenta/5c4o0jxfv9v1/wish/334704922 The Native Americans received praises and rewards throughout the war. Although, when they returned home they still faced discrimination and were still considered second class citizens.]]> 2019-02-25 05:25:42 UTC https://padlet.com/20earmenta/5c4o0jxfv9v1/wish/334704922 20flaibwij https://padlet.com/20earmenta/5c4o0jxfv9v1/wish/334705349

https://www.fcpotawatomi.com/news/native-americans-in-the-military-world-war-ii/

http://www.californiaindianeducation.org/native_american_veterans/navajo_code_talkers.html

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/nativevoices/timeline/461.html

]]> 2019-02-25 05:28:43 UTC https://padlet.com/20earmenta/5c4o0jxfv9v1/wish/334705349 20earmenta https://padlet.com/20earmenta/5c4o0jxfv9v1/wish/334708697 Navajos in a U.S marine artillery regiment relay orders over a field radio in their native tongue ]]> 2019-02-25 05:58:14 UTC https://padlet.com/20earmenta/5c4o0jxfv9v1/wish/334708697 20earmenta https://padlet.com/20earmenta/5c4o0jxfv9v1/wish/334709554 Julia Reeves was a Native American and was one of the first U.S army nurses that was deployed to the pacific poses with patients ]]> 2019-02-25 06:06:39 UTC https://padlet.com/20earmenta/5c4o0jxfv9v1/wish/334709554 20earmenta https://padlet.com/20earmenta/5c4o0jxfv9v1/wish/334710641 Native Americans still not having the right to vote and being seen as second class citizens ]]> 2019-02-25 06:14:04 UTC https://padlet.com/20earmenta/5c4o0jxfv9v1/wish/334710641 20earmenta https://padlet.com/20earmenta/5c4o0jxfv9v1/wish/334711315 “The American Indians who served with Company E, 142nd Infantry, 36th Division, during World War I were some of the nation's first "code-talkers",”]]> 2019-02-25 06:18:13 UTC https://padlet.com/20earmenta/5c4o0jxfv9v1/wish/334711315 20earmenta https://padlet.com/20earmenta/5c4o0jxfv9v1/wish/334711879

timeinc.net

historynet.com

loc.gov

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