1. Interim between the World Wars:

2. A. Returning Home Rez and Urban Job market War bonuses Issues
1919 Society of American Indians petitioned to be included in Paris Peace Conf.
1923 Arapaho petition League of Nations
Full bloods tended to go back to Rez more often than mixed bloods
AEF Football and other sports
Showbiz, bronc rider, tap dancer and singer

3. B. Tribal Responses Victory & Welcome Dances, Powwows
Came home wounded and crippled
Maladjustment and alienation vs. tribal leaders
Alcohol and Drugs
Cultural impurities
American Indians of the World War AIWW

4. C. Federal Responses
“We may indeed all be proud of our red race and its record in the World War.”
Plenty Coups selected to place wreath on the tomb of the unknown soldier.
Pres. Coolidge sent certificates to tribes; which were feted by recipients
Warren Harding “The Bloviator” and the “return to normalcy”

5. D. External Issues 1918 Spanish Influenza 1919 Indian Citizenship Act
Virginia Racial Integrity Act 1924
1924 Indian Citizenship Act
1926: Tribal health care crisis
1928: Meriam Report

6. E. Peace-Time Service Reliance on the Navy: 1920-1940
Small “mobilization army,”
19,000 officers and 205,000 enlisted men
Jan enlisted strength to 175,000
June 1921: to 150,000.
1922: 12,000 comm. officers and 125,000 enlisted, not including 7,000 Philippine Scouts
Army strength stabilized at about that level until 1936.
Pershing remains in Rhineland till Jan
Many relic forts of Indian Wars remanned
Army garrisons maintained in Hawaii, the Philippines, and Panama.

7. F. Border Patrol
Regular Army guarded Mexican border due to revolutionary disturbances in Mexico.
Guy Lambert (Yankton Sioux) enlisted 1916 was stationed on Mexican border, later served as Indian police

8. G. Domestic Strife
1921 Summer: Army helped suppress of labor disputes and race conflicts
1930 Congress released $1,440,000 for medical services on Rez
1931: BIA used Red Cross & Army to supply winter rations
July 28, 1932: Bonus Army March.
1933: Emergency Conservation Work Act, Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) Army mobilized 310,000 men into 1,315 camps
1933: Indian desks within the New Deal agencies