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  2. History of Native Americans in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Some 44,000 Native Americans served in the United States military during World War II: at the time, one-third of all able-bodied Indian men from 18 to 50 years of age. [124] The entry of young men into the United States military during World War II has been described as the first large-scale exodus of indigenous peoples from the reservations .

  3. Horses in World War II - Wikipedia

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    German soldier and his horse in the Russian SFSR, 1941.In two months, December 1941 and January 1942, the German Army on the Eastern Front lost 189,000 horses. [1]Horses in World War II were used by the belligerent nations, for transportation of troops, artillery, materiel, messages, and, to a lesser extent, in mobile cavalry troops.

  4. List of pre-Columbian inventions and innovations of ...

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    It came to be later adopted by US, Mexican, and indigenous horse-riding cultures. Chewing gum – Native Americans in New England introduced the settlers to chewing gum made from the spruce tree. The Mayans, on the other hand, were the first people to use latex gum; better known to them as chicle. [20] One of the few remaining chinampas at ...

  5. Native Americans and World War II - Wikipedia

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    General Douglas MacArthur meeting Navajo, O'odham, Pawnee and other native troops on 31 December 1943. Navajo code talkers during the Battle of Saipan in 1944.. As many as 25,000 Native Americans in World War II fought actively: 21,767 in the Army, 1,910 in the Navy, 874 in the Marines, 121 in the Coast Guard, and several hundred Native American women as nurses.

  6. Plains Indians - Wikipedia

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    Stumickosúcks of the Kainai. George Catlin, 1832 Comanches capturing wild horses with lassos, approximately July 16, 1834 Spotted Tail of the Lakota Sioux. Plains Indians or Indigenous peoples of the Great Plains and Canadian Prairies are the Native American tribes and First Nations peoples who have historically lived on the Interior Plains (the Great Plains and Canadian Prairies) of North ...

  7. List of Indian inventions and discoveries - Wikipedia

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    Indigo dye – Indigo, a blue pigment and a dye, was used in India, which was also the earliest major centre for its production and processing. [2] The Indigofera tinctoria variety of Indigo was domesticated in India. [2] Indigo, used as a dye, made its way to the Greeks and the Romans via various trade routes, and was valued as a luxury ...

  8. Scientists have traced the origin of the modern horse to a ...

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    Around 4,200 years ago, one particular lineage of horse quickly became dominant across Eurasia, suggesting that’s when humans started to spread domesticated horses around the world, according to ...

  9. Travois - Wikipedia

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    Before the use of horses, Blackfoot women made a curved fence of dog travois’ tied together, front end up, to hold driven animals enclosed until the hunters could kill them. [ 10 ] : 9 When the women put up a tipi, they placed an upright horse travois against a tipi pole and used it as a ladder so they could attach the two upper sides of the ...