News clipping from newspaper with headline "Pia Machita Arrested in U.S. Officer Raid - Rugged Old Indian Rebel Bows to Airplane as marshal's posse rounds up tribesmen; capture effected peacably
I'm sharing a paper that I wrote about the story of Pia Machita, a Tohono O'odham elder who led his village in resisting military conscription from 1940-1941.
It is a powerful story and one that brings to mind other moments of Indigenous resistance to the draft […]
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