Native American Military Contributions
With a Focus on the Vietnam Era
By Cameron Mahlum

Links And More

Links

These materials are outside the Collection's website and Marquette University is not responsible for its content.

• Indian Army Nurses: http://www.indiantrailonline.com/naan.htm
• Indians in the Military: http://www.nativeculture.com/lisamitten/vets.html
• Lakota Prayer: http://www.vietvet.org/lakopray.htm
• The National Native American Vietnam Veterans Memorial: http://www.thehighground.org/nnavvm.html

• Navajo Nation Veterans Medal: http://www.lapahie.com/Navajo_Veterans_Medal.html

• Milwaukee Public Museum: http://www.mpm.edu/collect/vet.html

• 20^TH Century Warriors - Native American Participation in the United States Military: http://www.denix.osd.mil/denix/Public/Native/Outreach/Warriors/warriors.html

• Naval Historical Center: http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq61-1.htm

• Military Participation of Native Americans: http://www.geocities.com/TheTropics/6943/stats.html

• Native Veterans Association of Northwestern Ontario: http://www.aboriginalcollections.ic.gc/ca/veterans/articles/article_vietnamvets.htm

Marquette Resources

• Forge, Destroy, and Preserve the Bonds of Empire: Euro-Americans, Native Americans, and Métis on the Wisconsin Frontier, 1634-1856, by Patrick J. Jung, Ph. D. dissertation, Marquette University, 2 volumes, F584 .J86 1997. Available via interlibrary loan.
• Navajo Code Talkers of World War II in Diné the People by Suzanne Eltsosi

The first American Indian Army Nurses: Susan Bordeaux (the Rev. Mother M. Anthony), Ella Clark (the Rev. Sister M. Gertrude), Anna B. Pleets (the Rev. Mother M. Bridget), and Josephine Two Bear (the Rev. Sister M. Joseph) with their chaplain, Rev. Francis M. Craft at Camp Columbia, Havana, Cuba, 1898. These Lakota Sioux nuns were from North Dakota and members of the Congregation of American Sisters. Harmon and Shaw, photographers of Atlanta, Georgia, Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions Records, Marquette University Libraries, Special Collections

For more information, see:  Indian Army Nurses,  http://www.indiantrailonline.com/nan.htm,  including the article "The First Indian Army Nurses, Women of the Lakota Nation," by Brenda Finnicum, in Indian Country Today, January 3, 2001.