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American History

MontanaMama

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1. The Fort Missoula museum here in town

Reply to yonder (Original post)

Thu Sep 13, 2018, 05:54 PM

Sep 2018

has a wonderful tribute to the bicycle riding Buffalo Soldiers. There is some dispute as to where the term “Buffalo Soldier” came from but many attribute the nickname to the Native Americans who called the Black Cavalry by the name Buffalo Soldiers because they had kinky, curly hair like the bison. The last surviving Buffalo Soldier, Mark Matthews, died in 2005 at the age of 111.

I didn’t know about the documentary, thank you for the heads up!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_Soldier

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