Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 170, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 July 1919 — Indians In United States Army. [ARTICLE]

Indians In United States Army.

A total of about 5,000 Indians enlisted to fight against Germany in the war, according to information given out by the office of the commissioner of Indian affairs at Washington, several hundred of them being in the navy. The Indians were not segregated and there were no army units made up exclusively of Indians. They served in the rdnks and fought beside the other soldiers without regard to the fact that they were Indians. Official reports of Indian superintendents showed that on June 20. 1917, the total number of Indians in the United States was 335,998.