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Show Among the forces which we have landed in France are fullblooded Indian In-dian fighters, whose prosaic khaki, which has replaced the feathers and war paint of olden days, has not changed the fighting traditions of their race. Seventy-five per cent of these young men ,who are helping to save sivilization are volunteers and the others responded cheerfully to the draft. Several companies have been formed wholly of Indians, but in general gen-eral they are merged with the whites and make good comrades an important import-ant fact, as it makes the obliteration of the old tribal lines and the crumbling crumb-ling of the wall between white men ft-and ft-and red men. There are several ( ' chiefs in the army and several hold official rank. Almost every tribe is represented, and such old fighting names as Apache, Sioux, Cherokees and Pawnees seem odd in our modern armies across the seas, but their owners own-ers are conducting themselves so bravely and unflinchingly that the United States army is justly proud of the red men it includes. |