Carroll, Al.

Medicine bags and dog tags : American Indian veterans from colonial times to the second Iraq War / Al Carroll. - Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2008. - 287 p. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [265]-274) and index.

"Let's see some of that Apache know-how" : depictions of Native veterans in fiction -- "They kill Indians mostly, don't they?" : Rogers' Rangers and the adoption of Indian tactics -- Before a Native veteran tradition can begin : the case of Mexico -- Thunderbird warriors, injuneers, and the USNs Red Cloud : Native and pseudo-Indian images and names in the military -- The super scout image : using a stereotype to help Native traditions revive -- "Savages again" : World War II -- The half-hidden spirit guide totemic mark : Korea -- An American ka in Indian country : Vietnam -- Bringing the war home : the American Indian movement, Wounded Knee II, counterinsurgency, and a new direction for warrior societies -- "Fighting terrorism since 1492" : the Gulf War, the war in Afghanistan, and the second Iraq War -- "A woman warrior, just like Lozen" : the meaning of the life of Lori Piestewa to Natives and non-natives.

9780803210851 (cloth : alk. paper) 080321085X (cloth : alk. paper)

2007045220

GBA861455 bnb

014601707 Uk


Indian veterans.
Indians of North America--Government relations.
Indians of North America--History.


United States--Armed Forces--Indian troops--History.

E98.M5 / C37 2008

323.1197