American Indians Irate over Bin Laden Code Name “Geronimo”
…in the US military at six times the rate of any other minority. The first woman to die in combat in the Iraq war was Lori Piestewa, a Hopi Indian woman. And yet throughout the United States, Native women are remembered only by the place names that use the deeply offensive “s” word which is historically connected to the rape and sexual exploitation of Indian women. During the Vietnam War the US military referred to indigenous-controlled territory a…
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