PROFESSOR'S FILM ON NATIVE AMERICAN SOLDIERS TO AIR ON PBS
October 18, 2007
October 18, 2007
MADISON, Wis., Oct. 18 -- The University of Wisconsin issued the following news release:
As a United States soldier in the second decade of the 20th century, Edward DeNomie chased Pancho Villa and fought in all seven major battles of World War I. He took shrapnel in his ear and lost a lung in a German gas attack. He saw some of his best friends die, all while serving a country of which he was not a citizen.
That is because he - like 12,000 other soldiers who volunte . . .
As a United States soldier in the second decade of the 20th century, Edward DeNomie chased Pancho Villa and fought in all seven major battles of World War I. He took shrapnel in his ear and lost a lung in a German gas attack. He saw some of his best friends die, all while serving a country of which he was not a citizen.
That is because he - like 12,000 other soldiers who volunte . . .