Fighting on Arrival, Fighting for Survival

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🗓️ 9 February 2019

⏱️ 20 minutes

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During the Indian conflicts on the western plains after the Civil War, Native Americans gave Black regiments of the U.S. Army the name Buffalo Soldiers, after their short, curly hair, which to them, looked like a bison. The soldiers took a liking to the name, and it stuck. The Buffalo Soldiers contributed to the U.S. in many ways over the course of nearly 90 years, but one of their most important was as the first caretakers of our national parks. Between 1891 and 1913, the Army was tasked with the protection of Yosemite and Sequoia National Parks. Buffalo soldiers fought wildfires and poachers, ended illegal grazing of livestock on federal lands, and constructing roads, trails and other infrastructure. In 1903, Captain Charles Young led a company of Buffalo Soldiers in Sequoia and what is now Sequoia and King's Canyon National Parks, becoming the first African American park superintendent.

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0:00.0	The America's National Parks Podcast is sponsored by L.L. Bean.
0:15.0	This year, L.L. Bean is joining up with the National Park Foundation,
0:20.0	the official non-profit partner of the National Park Service to help you find your happy place in an amazing system of more than 400 national parks including historic and cultural sites, monuments, preserves, lakeshores, and seashores
0:35.8	that dot the American landscape,
0:38.1	many of which you'll find just a short trip from home.
0:41.1	L.L. Bean is proud to be an official partner of the National Park Foundation.
0:47.0	Discover your perfect day in a park at find your park.com. In May of 1993 I was in May of 1993 I was drafted into the army and the Buffalo Soldier Division
1:09.6	and 92nd Infantry Division which was all black, except for the officers, had lost a number of
1:18.6	troops and was somewhat decimated, so they needed black troops to replace some of the troops whom had been
1:27.6	lost and within a one week we found ourselves in the 92nd infantry division of all places.
1:35.9	Welcome to the Army. Welcome to the Army. Warren Jr., a World War II era Buffalo soldier in conversation with his son,
1:46.0	Lee. To go in one week from going to school and sleeping in beds and chasing the young ladies on the Hampton
1:56.6	campus and everything to maneuvers in a mud hole in northern Louisiana and Arkansas.
2:07.0	It was horrible.
2:09.2	The 92nd Infantry Division served in combat
2:12.0	during the Italian campaign in World War II. Infantry Division served in the
2:14.0	in World War II.
2:15.1	The 93rd Infantry Division served in the Pacific Theater.
2:19.0	Independent black artillery, tank, and tank destroyer battalions also served in World War II. Art established as an all-black cavalry regiment of the United States Army in 1866 at Fort
2:36.1	Leavenworth, Kansas.
2:38.2	On the Western Plains, sort of protected the wagon trains that were going through. The Indians had never seen people with curly hair texture and said they
2:50.8	look like buffaloes and the American soldiers heard that and they liked it
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