| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 33.3

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Book Review

World War II and the American Indian. By Kenneth William Townsend. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2000. x + 272 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $35.)

One glance at the photo on the cover of Kenneth Townsend's new book will make the average American do a double take. The terms "Native American," "Indian," and "war" often evoke images of angry "braves" on horseback attacking a group of circled wagons, intense images of Custer's Last Stand, or even John Wayne fiercely battling hordes of shrieking "savages" in an attempt to save some tiny western settlement. Few would ever think of Corporal Virgil Wyaco, Chief Two Hatchet, Sergeant Gilbert Eaglefeather, or the thousands of other nationalistic natives who went on the "warpath" to fight for their country in World War II. . . .

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