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- The
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- Buffalo
Soldiers
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- Easier - Buffalo
Soldiers was a name given to two cavalry regiments
and two infantry regiments. These United States
Army units were made up entirely of African
American soldiers.
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- Harder - In 1866
two U.S. Army African American regiments were
formed, the 9th and 10th cavalries. Members of
these two cavalry units and two all-black infantry
regiments, the 24th and 25th, came to be called
Buffalo Soldiers. By 1867, the first Buffalo
Soldier units were sent to the West to fight
Indians and protect settlers, cattle herds, and
railroad crews. Indians gave the troops the name of
Buffalo Soldiers, probably because their short,
dark, curly hair resembled the mane of the buffalo.
In the 1950s, Buffalo Soldier regiments were
disbanded when all military services were
integrated.
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- Buffalo
Soldiers at Fort Huachuca (Huachuca
Illustrated)
- http://www.ukans.edu/~kansite/ww_one/comment/huachuca/HI1-00index.htm
- This series of articles tries to convey what it
was like to be a soldier along the Mexican border
from 1913 to 1939, especially an African-American
soldier.
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- Buffalo
Soldiers on the Western Frontier
- http://www.imh.org/imh/buf/buftoc.html
- Here you find information on the African
American soldiers.
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- Buffalo
Soldiers - America's Unsung Heroes
(BuffaloSoldiers.Net)
- http://www.buffalosoldiers.net/
- This site links to tons of information about
buffalo soldiers. You can also find photos
here.
- Another Buffalo Soldiers
Links-site:
- 2) Buffalo Soldiers http://blackarchives.org/links/soldiers.htm
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- Texas
Buffalo Soldiers History (Texas Parks and
Wildlife)
- http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/park/admin/buffalo/bf_history_toc.htm
- Learn about the black soldiers of the 9th &
10th Cavalry and the 24th & 25th Infantry
Regiments and their "Outstanding" Acts of Valor
during the Indian Wars Campaign.
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- After exploring several of the
websites below, complete one or more of
the following projects:
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- Find Connections between Bob Marley
& the Buffalo Soldiers. Follow the
instructions at The
Buffalo Soldiers to learn more about
the African American Buffalo Soldiers and
explore the connections of their lives to
the life of Bob Marley, a Jamaican
musician, in a song that he wrote.
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- Complete a Buffalo Soldiers
WebQuest. Follow or adapt the
procedures at one of the following
webQuest sites.
- 1) Blazing Trails with the Buffalo
Soldiers by Gwendolyn McNeil http://www.memphis-schools.k12.tn.us/admin/tlapages/buffalo.html
- 2) Buffalo Soldiers Textbook by
Clinton Cox http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/buffalo/buffsg.html
- 3) Buffalo Soldiers: Unsung Heroes of
the Old West
http://teach.fhu.edu/technology/EDU506/WebQuests/bsoldiers/thebuff.htm
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- Create a Buffalo Soldier Diary.
Visit sites like The
Buffalo Soldiers at Fort Huachuca and
The
Buffalo Soldiers on the Western
Frontier, then create a diary that
explains the daily life of a typical
Buffalo Soldier serving on the western
frontier. You can include your own
sketches or illustrations. As an
alternative activity, select a different
time period such as the Spanish-American
or one of the World Wars.
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- Write a Buffalo Soldier
Biography. Visit the websites for
Henry Flipper or Cathay Williams (Listed
below). Then write a brief biography of
their lives. Make your own book and share
it with friends and family.
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- Make a Buffalo Soldier Drawing.
Study the photographs found at Buffalo
Soldiers - America's Unsung Heroes and
other websites. Then create your own
Buffalo Soldier artwork. You might start
by sketching a cavalry trooper and his
horse or an infantryman. Decide whether
your scene will be on a patrol, in a
skirmish, or portray a daily fort
scene.
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- Website by Kids for Kids
- Buffalo
Soldiers (ThinkQuest Junior)
- http://tqjunior.thinkquest.org/4087/
- This website covers the Buffalo Soldiers'
history from post Civil War regiments through World
War II.
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- Buffalo
Soldiers Project at Austin Learning
Academy
- http://www.alaweb.org/studentfolder/studentfiles/buffalo/buffalo.htm
- Students researched the Texas Buffalo Soldiers
on the Internet and interviewed Ken Pollard of the
Texas Parks and Wildlife Department. Then they
compared and contrasted campouts today with
campouts of the Buffalo Soldiers in the 1800s. What
they found is at this website.
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- More Buffalo Soldier Websites
- Buffalo
Soldiers & Indian Wars
- http://www.buffalosoldier.net/
- This website developed by Stanford L. Davis
contains historical photos and good information
about the history of the Buffalo Soldier and Davis'
great-grandfather, sergeant Henry Parker.
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- Buffalo
Soldiers: Lest We Forget
- http://www.coax.net/people/lwf/buf_sol.htm
- Find lots of information about the 9th and 10th
cavalry and the 24th and 25th infantry units that
were stationed at Fort Davis, Texas - plus lots
more.
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- Female
Buffalo Soldier
- http://www.buffalosoldier.net/CathayWilliamsFemaleBuffaloSoldierWithDocuments.htm
- This website presents the story of Cathay
Williams/William Cathay, soldier from 1866. 1868,
the only known female soldier in the
regiments.
- Related Website:
- 2) Female Buffalo Soldier lived life of
excitement and inspiration.
- http://www.majorcox.com/columns/buffalo.htm
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- Lieutenant
Henry O. Flipper
- http://www.mobeetie.com/pages/flipper.htm
- Here you can learn about America's first black
West Point graduate and first commissioned black
officer; the Fort Davis 'buffalo soldier" who was
unjustly coutmartialed, and recently pardoned by
President Clinton on February 19, 1999.
- Other Sites About Henry O. Flipper:
- 2) Lt. Henry Ossian Flipper http://www.rose.net/flipper.htm
- 3) Henry O. Flipper: West Point Pioneer
http://www.aog.usma.edu/Pubs/Register/Flipper.htm
- 4) Henry Flipper
http://charter.uchicago.edu/AAH/flipper.htm
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- Shadows
in the Range of Light
- http://www.wilderness.net/wildlink/shadowsoldier/ho_homenofl_fram.html
- Nearly 400 African-Americans traveled from
California Presidios to the Sierra Nevada at the
turn of the last century. Only one image and a
handful of documents record their existence.
- See If You Can Help Solve the
Mystery:
- 2) Mystery http://www.wilderness.net/wildlink/shadowsoldier/ho_mystery.html
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- Websites for Teachers
- Buffalo
Soldiers at DiscoverySchool.com (Grades
6-12)
- http://school.discovery.com/lessonplans/programs/rediscoveringamerica-
- buffalosoldiers/index.html
- Students learn about African American soldiers
and how they played a major role in the American
military in the late 19th and early 20th
centuries.
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- Created by
Annette
Lamb and
Larry
Johnson,
1/99 Update 9/00. Update
by Nancy
Smith
9/02
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