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Navy Veteran Charles Sequoyah Lee Chupco is today's Veteran of the Day.

#VeteranOfTheDay Navy Veteran Charles Sequoyah Lee Chupco

Posted on Monday, November 9, 2020 11:30 amOctober 8, 2020 Posted in Veteran of the Day by VAntage Point Contributor 810 views

In honor of National Native American Heritage Month, today’s #VeteranOfTheDay is Navy Veteran Charles …

Army Veteran Sophie Yazzie is today's Veteran of the Day.

#VeteranOfTheDay Army Veteran Sophie Yazzie

Posted on Monday, November 2, 2020 11:30 amMarch 11, 2020 Posted in Veteran of the Day by VAntage Point Contributor 2k views

For National Native American Heritage Month, today’s #VeteranOfTheDay is Army Veteran Sophie Yazzie, who …

BtB #172 with Robert Primeaux.

Borne the Battle #172: Dr. Robert Primeaux, Vietnam Veteran, Lakota Warrior

Posted on Wednesday, November 20, 2019 8:00 amDecember 10, 2019 Posted in Borne the Battle podcast, Top Stories by VAntage Point Contributor 8k views

From reservation to the Army and later to Hollywood, Primeaux describes life as member of a Lakota tribe, …

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The Warrior Tradition: PBS documentary highlights Native American Veterans

Posted on Thursday, November 7, 2019 9:00 amNovember 5, 2019 Posted in Honoring Vets, Native American Veterans by Reynaldo Leal 13k views

The Warrior Tradition tells the astonishing, heartbreaking, inspiring, and largely-untold story of Native …

A young male member of the Lipan Apache Tribe of Texas raises the U.S. flag while other tribe members play and sing in a drum circle during a special event held in observance of National Native American Heritage Month, which took place at the VA outpatient clinic in Harlingen, Texas, on November 16, 2018. (U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs photo by Luis H. Loza Gutierrez)

Honoring the first people of America and the warriors who served to protect it

Posted on Wednesday, November 21, 2018 6:26 pmDecember 6, 2018 Posted in Native American Veterans, The American Veteran, Tribal Affairs, Veteran of the Day, Vets Experience by Luis H. Loza Gutierrez 1k views

HARLINGEN, Texas — VA Texas Valley Coastal Bend Health Care System (VCB) recently held a …