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In reading this article, the title is "Native Americans and World War II" (as I'm sure we can all read), but then throughout the article it constantly refers to the Native Americans as Indians. Now, I don't really want to get into which is correct, but shouldn't we just pick one or the other and
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It has been seven months since the previous poster, crashdown, suggested consistency in this article. I prefer the term Native Americans. As such i will go through and change references to 'Indians' and/or 'American Indians' to 'Native
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I'm bothered by the statement that white troops called their Native American comrades "chief" out of respect. Maybe that's why there's no citation -- and won't be one. Can we delete that or rephrase it?
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Shouldn't admiral Joseph James "Jocko" Clark, USN, be on this list? He was the first Native American to graduate from Annapolis and served throughout WWII.
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There is a movie about native Americans in WWII, beginning with "wind*****". Anybody there who knows the name?
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It is widely published that 44,000 Native Americans were in the US military in World War II.
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stick with it? My thoughts here are that it will prevent any confusion more than insult.
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I'm quite surprised that this page doesn't have anything about Native American
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