Talk:Native Americans and World War II

"Chief"
I'm bothered by the statement that white troops called their Native American comrades "chief" out of respect. Maybe that's why there's no citation -- and won't be one. Can we delete that or rephrase it? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.15.106.11 (talk) 23:15, 15 April 2012 (UTC)

Relax — Preceding unsigned comment added by 198.208.251.22 (talk) 15:41, 2 November 2012 (UTC)

USA only?
Did Native Americans / First Nations members serve in the Canadian forces in WWII? The Brazilian Expeditionary Force? We need to clarify whether this article is only about the USA (and if so, possibly rename), or whether it includes other countries. -- 201.51.250.178 23:11, 27 June 2007 (UTC)

Name of the movie
There is a movie about native Americans in WWII, beginning with "wind*****". Anybody there who knows the name? 83.86.2.231 18:06, 29 October 2007 (UTC)


 * Windtalkers. Vizjim 06:00, 30 October 2007 (UTC)

Varying use of Native Americans/Indians
In reading this article, the title is "Native Americans and World War II" (as I'm sure we can all read), but then throughout the article it constantly refers to the Native Americans as Indians. Now, I don't really want to get into which is correct, but shouldn't we just pick one or the other and stick with it? My thoughts here are that it will prevent any confusion more than insult. Crashdown13 (talk) 01:39, 9 August 2011 (UTC)

Correction
It has been seven months since the previous poster, crashdown, suggested consistency in this article. I prefer the term Native Americans. As such i will go through and change references to 'Indians' and/or 'American Indians' to 'Native Americans'.Ruraltexas (talk) 06:18, 6 March 2012 (UTC) I erred. What i prefer is neither here nor there. from what i can discern from the web american indians actually prefer to be called american indians as a whole, or by tribal names at a smaller scale. How do you change the title?Ruraltexas (talk) 06:41, 6 March 2012 (UTC)

Code talkers
I'm quite surprised that this page doesn't have anything about Native American code talkers. They played quite a substantial role in the war. I'm not very familiar with the history, so can someone else fix this oversight? 122.111.201.184 (talk) 22:30, 2 March 2013 (UTC)

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"'Major errors"'
It is widely published that 44,000 Native Americans were in the US military in World War II. -They were not subject to the draft, but rather 99% of draft-age Native American men volunteered. -They were in every branch of the service. Some Native American women were also military nurses. -The 44,000 is out of then 350,000 total, the highest percentage of any US ethnic group. Please fix this if you are a specialist in Native North American history; I'm just an Asia specialist. Asiaedit (talk) 01:15, 10 January 2020 (UTC)asiaedit

Proposed Addition
Shouldn't admiral Joseph James "Jocko" Clark, USN, be on this list? He was the first Native American to graduate from Annapolis and served throughout WWII.