Native American Service | How WWI Changed America

While Native Americans have a complicated history of serving in the U.S. military, we have a long history of defending our lands. Native people serve in the armed forces at 5 times the national average and, during WWII, up to 70% of the men of a single Nation enlisted in some tribes. During WWI approximately 15,000 Native American men who served in the military were not even technically considered American citizens (citizenship would not be granted to Indian Nations until 1924 with the passing o