Honoring Veteran's Day

The Ohio State University Marching Band is joined by the Ohio State Alumni Band

 to honor the armed forces.

Video Courtesy of The Ohio State University Youtube.

The Newark Earthworks Center would like to 
thank and honor our members of the armed forces 
for their dedicated service. 

"The service and sacrifice of Native American veterans spans nearly two and a half centuries of American History. American Indians have served in the U.S. Armed Forces in every major conflict since the Revolutionary War and in greater numbers per capita than any other ethnic group-facts unknown to many Americans.

During World War II, over 44,000 Native Americans served in the U.S. military. Hundreds of Navajo, Comanche and other Native language speakers-Code Talker-played a crucial role. More than 42,000 Native American served during the Vietnam War as well. Today, the U.S. Department of Defense estimates more than 24,000 American Indian and Alaska Native men and women are on active duty, and more that 150,000 veterans self-identity as American Indian or Alaska Native."

-National Museum of the American Indian.

• National Museum of the American Indian 
• National Native American Veterans Memorial
• Valor in Black and White: War Stories of Horace Poolaw Live Webcast
• November 11, 2016
• "Decorated U.S. Marine Corps veteran Robert “Corky” Poolaw and Linda Poolaw (two of Horace’s four children, both Kiowa/Delaware), will speak about the photography of Horace Poolaw (Kiowa, 1906–84) with particular attention to his pictures on the subject of American Indians and the military. The discussion will focus on Poolaw’s compelling and insightful images of generations of Native servicemen during the wars in Europe, Korea, and Vietnam. Multimedia artist Thomas Poolaw will join the conversation to explore his grandfather Horace Poolaw’s artistic and cultural legacy. "
• Native Words, Native Warriors Online Exhibit
• The Power of Words: Native Languages as Weapons of War
• 2014.
• 2016 Veterans Day events in central Ohio
• The Columbus Dispatch, 2016.
• Military and Veterans Services
• The Ohio State University
• Admission information for veterans
• Indian Country Today | Veterans
• Native American Veterans: Storytelling for Healing
• ANA Administration for Native Americans, U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
• American Indian and Alaska Native Veterans: Lasting Contributions
• Department of Veterans Affairs, September 2006.
• In Honor of Memorial Day- Memorials Honoring Our Fallen Native Warriors
• May 30, 2016.
• Chester Nez, last of the original Navajo code talkers of World War II, Dies
• June 16, 2014.