According to the USO, “Native Americans serve in the United States Armed Forces at five times the national average.” As of 2019, the Native population in the U.S. was approximately 1.4% but in the military 1.7%.

Military Times reports:

“To this day, American Indians serve in the armed forces at a higher rate than any other demographic. Since 9/11, nearly 19 percent of Native Americans have served in the armed forces, compared to an average of 14 percent of all other ethnicities.”

And the United States Marine Corps:

“Although only .1 percent of the Marine Corps is comprised of Native Americans, it is recognized historically that Native Americans have the highest record of service per capita when compared to other ethnic groups, according to the DoD.”

The Navajo Code Talkers of the Second World War. From the United States Marine Corps Museum, “Navajo Radio Operators (MOS 0642) newly graduated from Marine Corps boot camp developed the Code within seven weeks at Camp Elliot, California.”

From the US Army, the Comanche in the Second World War:

“In December of 1940, the Army recruited 17 Comanche to become code talkers,” said Staff Sgt. Ky DeFlippo, a Comanche tribesman and drill sergeant assigned to Company A, 1st Battalion, 34th Infantry Regiment.

Introducing the deadliest sniper of WWII Allied Forces, Canadian First Nations Francis Pegahmagabow, an Ojibwa soldier.

From the United States Army website comes the summary of why Natives and First Nations enlist:

“A lot of Native Americans come from warrior societies,” [Martin Red Bear, Lakota Army veteran] said. “A lot of them couldn’t fulfill their culture, their way of life as time went on. The only way they could practice their warrior societies was enlisting in the U.S. armed forces … Marines, Army, Air Force, Navy … whoever they be. It doesn’t matter who they are, what branch they are, to us as natives, those are our warriors.”

The US two political party monopoly ‘tribal warfare,’ as this author calls it, automatically condemns anything the other side does. Any private individual, no matter who they are or what they are about, is condemned with that party by members of the rival party with a dictatorship that no Americans can think for themselves and all must follow one party or the other like robots–yes, that is how it comes across! Native things have shown up in the political mad house and deemed Democrat. This next section is to show Republican POTUSes regarding Natives.

From the Veterans Administration:

“In November 2001, President George W. Bush proclaimed National American Indian Heritage Month by celebrating the role of the indigenous peoples of North America in shaping our Nation’s history and culture. He said: “American Indian and Alaska Native cultures have made remarkable contributions to our national identity. Their unique spiritual, artistic, and literary contributions, together with their vibrant customs and celebrations, enliven and enrich our land.”

Though highly controversial in every direction of today’s social politics, nonetheless, the fact is  Republican President Abraham Lincoln overruled the execution of 264 Dakota warriors. They conducted warfare and he felt they should be treated that way. There were some others who committed war crimes and they hung. The white people of Minnesota wanted over 300 warriors hung. As it was, the hanging of those ruled by Lincoln to have committed war crimes was the biggest mass hanging in US history.

“In 1864, Governor Ramsey told Lincoln that if he had approved the execution all 303 Dakotas, he would have won more support for his reelection bid. ‘I could not afford to hang men for votes,’ the president replied.”

For Gunny Raven and His Warrior Cousins in Uniform