This week's theme: Ethnic humor in WWI

And by "ethnic", I of course mean "racist".
(Hey, it's 1918, Martin Luther King, Jr. isn't even born yet).


Philip Sheridan (Union Civil War General)
"The only good Indian is a dead Indian."
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Sheridan


Indianola (Sheet Music)
https://library.duke.edu/digitalcollections/hasm_a5908/
https://archive.org/details/indianola00henr

Indianola - international hit song
https://books.google.com/books?id=biKQDgAAQBAJ&pg=PA181&lpg=PA181&dq=Indianola+song+1918&source=bl&ots=0A8fFEi6L_&sig=9DnZIMK0PqjM1vL3igk1Hpkz5O4&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjEqqLV7KPZAhUJ1oMKHYw7DvMQ6AEIQTAF#v=onepage&q=Indianola%20song%201918&f=false


You may have heard of the Navajo code talkers in WWII but their forerunners 
were Choctaw code talkers in WWI. I wonder what the Choctaw word for 
"Zeppelin" is :-)

Choctaw code talkers
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choctaw_code_talkers

Code talker
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_talker


American Indians weren't considered U.S. citizenship until after WWI. It was 
granted to Indian WWI veterans in 1919 and to all Indians in 1924.

Indian Citizenship Act of 1924
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Citizenship_Act

Congress Granted Citizenship to All Native Americans Born in the U.S. June 
2, 1924
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/jb/jazz/jb_jazz_citizens_1.html



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