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Native Sun News: Oglala Sioux Tribe plans veterans cemetery (5/16/2012)
(South Dakota) -- The Oglala Sioux Tribe soon will have its own place to memorialize war heroes and bring military family members home to rest with a new $6 million...
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West Point United States Military Academy Hosts Pow Wow, Thanks Natives for Service (5/13/2012)
(New York) -- This May, West Point, The United States Military Academy, gathered its cadets once more along the banks of New York’s Hudson River to celebrate...
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A Portrait of Service, Sacrifice and Family Values (5/13/2012)
(USA) -- It has the makings of a compelling World War II mini-series with a theme that will be familiar throughout Indian country—heartbreaking sacrifices and...
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Veterans could receive care at Native clinics (5/11/2012)
(Alaska) -- An agreement that could allow rural Alaska veterans to receive healthcare benefits at Native health clinics for the first time was commended last week by...
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Code talker dies in Farmington (5/11/2012)
(New Mexico) -- Flags are flying at half-staff over the Navajo Nation after the recent death of a code talker. Samuel Tso, 89, died Wednesday in Farmington. He...
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Shelly orders flags at half-staff to honor Code Talker (5/11/2012)
(Arizona) -- The Navajo Nation has lost another heroic Code Talker. Samuel Tso, 89, of Lukachukai, Ariz., passed away Wednesday, May 9, 2012 with family members beside...
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VP of Navajo Code Talkers Association dies (5/11/2012)
(New Mexico) -- The Navajo Nation has confirmed that Navajo Code Taker Samuel Tso, who campaigned for a Navajo Code Talkers museum and WWII veterans' center, has...
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Flags ordered at half-staff for code talker Samuel Tso (5/10/2012)
(Arizona) -- Navajo Code Talker Samuel Tso, 89, of Lukachukai, Ariz., passed away Wednesday evening with family members beside him at San Juan Regional Medical Center in...
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Samuel Tso, Navajo Code Talker Walks On (5/10/2012)
(Arizona) -- Samuel Tso, 89, a United States Military Veteran and Navajo Code Talker passed away the evening of May 9 at the San Juan Regional Medical Center in...
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Hopi Code Talkers recognized with formal recognition day (5/3/2012)
(Arizona) -- In many ways, Hopi tradition does not embrace war, personal pride or overt public recognition. However, April 23 has been formally set aside by the Hopi...
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Gambling: New Combat Vets Plagued by Troubling Addiction (5/2/2012)
(USA) -- In 2007, having served with distinction during two deployments to Iraq and one to Afghanistan, U.S. Air Force firefighter John Brownfield Jr. took a job as a...
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Hopi Code Talkers recognized with formal recognition day (5/1/2012)
(Arizona) -- In many ways, Hopi tradition does not embrace war, personal pride or overt public recognition. However, April 23 has been formally set aside by the Hopi...
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Group plans Alaska Territorial Guard memorial park (4/30/2012)
(Alaska) -- Federal validation took decades for Harold Bahr and the other members of a largely Native militia that was created to defend the immense territory of Alaska...
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Hopi Code Talkers honored at Kykotsmovi memorial (4/28/2012)
(New Mexico) -- It was Sept. 17, 1944. Eight young Hopi men thought about their families and peaceful villages in the high desert of Arizona — thousands of miles...
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Wounded British servicemen honoured by Native American tribe in unique ceremony at the Grand Canyon (4/27/2012)
(Arizona) -- British war heroes wounded in Afghanistan have been honoured for their bravery in battle by a tribe of Native American Indians.
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Wounded British servicemen honoured by Native American tribe in unique ceremony at the Grand Canyon (4/26/2012)
(Arizona) -- British war heroes wounded in Afghanistan have been honoured for their bravery in battle by a tribe of Native American Indians. A group of injured...
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Menominee woman receives eagle feather (4/24/2012)
(Wisconsin) -- Jamie Awonohopay of Keshena attempted to fight back the tears, but even her years in the military couldn't stop a few from falling as she was...
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Non-profit envisions veterans' home in Chinle (4/20/2012)
(Arizona) -- A handful of veterans' widows and children seems on the verge of accomplishing something the Navajo Nation has talked about for decades: a home for...
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Marine Corps Major Flies Helicopters That Transport President Obama (4/19/2012)
(Washington D.C.) -- His military biography says he was born in Bad Kreuznach, Germany, and raised as an Army brat, traveling the world. Now Maj. Paul Bisulca Jr., whose...
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Cpl. Antonio Burnside: Mother remembers her soldier who will be laid to rest today (4/19/2012)
(Montana) -- As a child, "Tony" Burnside was a beloved son in a typical extended Blackfeet family filled with parents, siblings, and numerous aunts, uncles and...
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