"Plains Indian View of the ‘Buffalo’ Soldier " Topic
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Tango01 | 14 Feb 2017 9:38 p.m. PST |
"Some of us that grew up viewing and believing that John Wayne on the big screen must have been a veteran of World War II like so many other Hollywood stars that did serve honorably in that conflict. He never served one day. But that is what our romantic impression is. Too often our emotional perceptions are not supported by historical facts. Western novels and films have presented a notion that the US military ‘buffalo soldiers' in the plains area were recognized with mutual regard by the tribes. The romantic version is, "Their name--Buffalo Soldiers--was bestowed on them by the Cheyenne people. It refers to their fierce fighting abilities along with the texture of their hair." Yet the fact remains that we lack proof that the name meant anything more than identification between brown skin and hair on one side and more likely, brown buffalo fur overcoats on the other. In point of fact, no evidence has turned up that the Negro soldiers themselves used the name to refer to themselves, not in black newspapers, not in pension files, not in letters, not anywhere. The climate of opinion at that time was to be equal to the rest of the American military soldiers…" Main page link Amicalement Armand |
Tango01 | 20 Mar 2017 12:23 p.m. PST |
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