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Minnesota Chippewa Tribe Votes to Remove Blood Quantum from Enrollment Requirements | Currents
Via: Kavika • Anishinaabe - The First People • 8 Comments • 1 Like • 4 years ago
“MINNESOTA—On Wednesday, 7,470 enrolled citizens of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe (MCT) voted in a non-binding referendum on whether to remove or...”
Army Ranger Veterans of World War II Receive Congressional Gold Medal
Via: Kavika • News & Politics • 4 Comments • 5 Likes • 4 years ago
“"This elite group once numbered 7,000, but now it's down to 12. A dozen left," President Joe Biden said.”
The current active duty Ranger unit is the 75th Ranger Regiment. On January 30, 1945, some 120 Alamo Scouts and Rangers from the 6th Ranger Battalion, supported by 200 Filipino guerrillas, launched a rescue operation. To get to Cabanatuan, the commandos had to march 30 miles behind enemy...
Sacrifice: Remembering the 1st Minnesota at Gettysburg
Via: Kavika • News & Politics • 2 Comments • 6 Likes • 4 years ago
“More than a century and a half later, the nation they fought and died for remains, still imperfect, but still here.”
I was watching the 4th of July fireworks from Washington D.C. and thinking back on the history of the US and of my family which has a military history dating back hundreds of years. I remembered this article from a few years ago and being from Minnesota it always stuck in my mind. Historians...
Birdwell (Cherokee) to receive Medal of Honor at White House on July 5
Via: Kavika • News & Politics • 15 Comments • 7 Likes • 4 years ago
“OKLAHOMA CITY - Former Cherokee Nation Supreme Court Justice Dwight Birdwell will be one of four soldiers awarded the Medal of Honor on July 5 by...”
It was a few days ago the last living Medal of Honor recipient from WWII, Woody Williams passed away. https://nypost.com/2022/06/29/woody-williams-last-wwii-medal-of-honor-recipient-dead-at-98/ In addition to SP/5 Birdwell, three more soldiers will be awarded the Medal of Honor. Duffy...
The US is Reactivating the 11th Airborne Division
Via: Kavika • News & Politics • 22 Comments • 3 Likes • 4 years ago
“The US is preparing to reorganize US Army Alaska as the 11th Airborne Division- the only US airborne division to fight in the Pacific during WWII.”
This article will be of interest to NT veterans, especially those that served in Alaska and Airborne members of NT. The 11th Airborne was deactivated in 1965, prior to that it was the only Airborne Division that fought in the Pacific theater in WWII. the 187th RCT of the 11th Airborne fought...
