Native Americans in the Spanish American War...

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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."
 

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Here is another another site about Native Americans in the Spanish American War...


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Bankston Johnson (Choctaw, 1862?–?) was a trooper in Theodore Roosevelt’s First Volunteer Cavalry Regiment, popularly known as the Rough Riders.
 

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Is it not interesting Teddy Roosevelt Rough Riders benefitted from Black Americas and Native Americans during his exploits in the Spanish American war... He had Native Americans leading the charge up the hill and Black Americas saving the day for him on the hill...

The link below from post 62 to 72 shows how the Buffalo Soldiers saved Teddy's tush...

https://www.jggscivilwartalk.online...hallenges-of-integration.190/page-4#post-6879
 

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The Buffalo Soldiers made it to Hawaii in 1913... Photos st the link...


The 25th Infantry, comprised of about 850 enlisted men and officers, arrived in Honolulu on January 14, 1913. The morning after their arrival they began a two-day, twenty-three-mile march to Schofield Barracks where they were stationed until 1917.

Newspaper articles describe how the soldiers were viewed by Hawai‘i’s multicultural society - although they did not encounter the racial hatred that they had from communities on the mainland, they did not entirely escape prejudice here. The black troops remained segregated from their white counterparts.

Positive cross-cultural relationships began as the troops marched in local parades and competed with civilian sports leagues in track and field and baseball. They were perhaps best known for their baseball prowess. Stories about their winning baseball team, the “Wreckers,” were published in the Honolulu newspapers. Several team members later joined the Negro League and one player, Wilber “Bullet” Rogan, was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.


Under the headline, “Soldiers Building Mountain Trail,” the Maui News reported, “Negro soldiers of the Twenty-fifth Infantry to the number of 150 are at work constructing a trail from near the Volcano House to the summit of Mauna Loa. It is estimated that three or four weeks will be devoted to this work. The soldiers are doing the work as a part of their vacation exercises.” (Emphasis added.)

“The soldiers are constructing a trail three feet wide across the a-a, crushing it down with twelve-pound hammers, filling in hollows, cutting down ridges and putting on a finish of fine a-a and earth, quarried along the line or packed in gunny sacks, carried on the men's backs—in some places being carried as far as a quarter of a mile.”
– Hawaiian Gazette, November 12, 1915
 

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Here is a little more...


So the Buffalo Soldiers were segregated African American regiments in the US Armed Forces,” said Summer Roper Todd, an archeologist at the Hawaii Volcanoes National Park. “This was started in 1866 by Congress. So the black soldiers had served during the Civil War and you know, prior to this, but this was the first time they had their own official, segregated regiments.”
 
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