The Warrior Tradition

November. 11,2019

Rating：

6.7

Genre：

Documentary

Keywords：

Native American Military Military Service

Trailer Synopsis Cast

The astonishing, heartbreaking, inspiring, and largely-untold story of Native Americans in the United States military. Why do they do it? Why would Indian men and women put their lives on the line for the very government that took their homelands?

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