The Warrior Tradition

The Warrior Tradition (2019)

November 11th, 20190h 55min

Documentary
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The astonishing, heartbreaking, inspiring, and largely-untold story of Native Americans in the United States military. Why do they do it? Why would Indian men and women put their lives on the line for the very government that took their homelands?


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