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It seems there were Native Americans in "Teddy's" Rough Riders... I found this article about native Americans in the Spanish American war with a lot of late Indian war mention but it was Indian fights leading our army down there. We were brutal to the American Indians... The article goes into Native Americans answering the call to fight Spain... I think the guy has no clue about Native Americans the author... @diane
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Meanwhile, veterans of the late nineteenth-century wars against Indian tribes filled the upper echelons of the United States Army. In 1876, after the battle of Little Bighorn (25 June 1876), Nelson Miles defeated Lakota leader Crazy Horse and chased Sitting Bull into Canada. The following year, he forced the surrender of Nez Percé leader Chief Joseph. Promoted to Major-General in 1890, Miles oversaw the suppression of the Lakota Ghost Dance Uprising, which degenerated into the tragedy of 29 December.
It has personal stories of Natives Americans that fought in the war... in detail...
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Frank Brito served with the 1st U.S. Volunteer Cavalry ("Rough Riders") and was the second-to-the-last surviving Rough Riders when he passed away at age 96.
Frank was born on August 24, 1877 in Pinos Altos, still a killing ground between citizens and the bands of Apaches under Geronimo, Victorio, Juh and Nana. He studied at the local grammar school and became a printer’s apprentice, then a miner. The average employee made no more than $30 a month and worked long hours, usually at hard labor in the mines, ore mills or outdoors.
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The following is a John Martin Adair served with the 1st U.S. Volunteer Cavalry ("Rough Riders") as a private in Troop L.
John Martin Adair was born on June 3, 1858 in the town of Fort Gibson, Cherokee Nation (now Fort Gibson, Oklahoma). His father was a member of the Cherokee Nation, named John Lafayette Adair. The elder Adair had been born in Georgia, and moved to the Cherokee Nation in the 1850's. His mother, Elizabeth Alabama Schrimacher, wa also of Cherokee descent, her family having come west over the "Trail of Tears."
Native Americans in the Spanish American War
Native Americans in the Spanish American War
www.spanamwar.com
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Meanwhile, veterans of the late nineteenth-century wars against Indian tribes filled the upper echelons of the United States Army. In 1876, after the battle of Little Bighorn (25 June 1876), Nelson Miles defeated Lakota leader Crazy Horse and chased Sitting Bull into Canada. The following year, he forced the surrender of Nez Percé leader Chief Joseph. Promoted to Major-General in 1890, Miles oversaw the suppression of the Lakota Ghost Dance Uprising, which degenerated into the tragedy of 29 December.
It has personal stories of Natives Americans that fought in the war... in detail...
Frank Brito of Roosevelt's Rough Riders, 1898
Biography of Frank Brita, 1st U.S. Volunteer Cavalry, 1898, Spanish American War
www.spanamwar.com
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Frank Brito served with the 1st U.S. Volunteer Cavalry ("Rough Riders") and was the second-to-the-last surviving Rough Riders when he passed away at age 96.
Frank was born on August 24, 1877 in Pinos Altos, still a killing ground between citizens and the bands of Apaches under Geronimo, Victorio, Juh and Nana. He studied at the local grammar school and became a printer’s apprentice, then a miner. The average employee made no more than $30 a month and worked long hours, usually at hard labor in the mines, ore mills or outdoors.
John Martin Adair, Rough Riders, 1898, Cuba
Biography of Rough Rider John Martin Adair, First U.S. Volunteer Cavalry
www.spanamwar.com
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The following is a John Martin Adair served with the 1st U.S. Volunteer Cavalry ("Rough Riders") as a private in Troop L.
John Martin Adair was born on June 3, 1858 in the town of Fort Gibson, Cherokee Nation (now Fort Gibson, Oklahoma). His father was a member of the Cherokee Nation, named John Lafayette Adair. The elder Adair had been born in Georgia, and moved to the Cherokee Nation in the 1850's. His mother, Elizabeth Alabama Schrimacher, wa also of Cherokee descent, her family having come west over the "Trail of Tears."