A soldier remembered.
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Terry Woster
twoster@argusleader.com
published: 11/25/2003
Pfc. Sheldon Hawk Eagle | 1982-2003
EAGLE BUTTE - A horse-drawn buckboard followed by a riderless pony draped with an American flag carried Pfc. Sheldon Hawk Eagle home to the Cheyenne River Indian Reservation on Monday.
Hawk Eagle, a descendant of Lakota warrior Crazy Horse, died in Iraq.
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Hawk Eagle, 21, died on Nov. 15 when two Black Hawk helicopters crashed in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul.
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\"It wasn't until 1924 that Native Americans were given citizenship,\" [Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe Chairman Harold] Frazier said. \"We love our country more so than any other race of people because we were here first.\"
He said Native Americans are proud of their country and proud to serve in the military.
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Hawk Eagle was a member of the 101st Airborne, assigned to air assault. He joined the Army in Grand Forks a month after his high school graduation and was sent to Iraq in March of this year.
His parents, Allen and Bernice Hawk Eagle, both died when he was a child, and he was raised by his uncle and aunt, Harvey Benjamin and Bernadine Fern Hawk Eagle.
Reach Terry Woster at 605-224-2760.
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Indeed, NBC reported that a higher percentage of Native Americans is in the service than any other minority group.
twoster@argusleader.com
published: 11/25/2003
Pfc. Sheldon Hawk Eagle | 1982-2003
EAGLE BUTTE - A horse-drawn buckboard followed by a riderless pony draped with an American flag carried Pfc. Sheldon Hawk Eagle home to the Cheyenne River Indian Reservation on Monday.
Hawk Eagle, a descendant of Lakota warrior Crazy Horse, died in Iraq.
....
Hawk Eagle, 21, died on Nov. 15 when two Black Hawk helicopters crashed in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul.
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\"It wasn't until 1924 that Native Americans were given citizenship,\" [Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe Chairman Harold] Frazier said. \"We love our country more so than any other race of people because we were here first.\"
He said Native Americans are proud of their country and proud to serve in the military.
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Hawk Eagle was a member of the 101st Airborne, assigned to air assault. He joined the Army in Grand Forks a month after his high school graduation and was sent to Iraq in March of this year.
His parents, Allen and Bernice Hawk Eagle, both died when he was a child, and he was raised by his uncle and aunt, Harvey Benjamin and Bernadine Fern Hawk Eagle.
Reach Terry Woster at 605-224-2760.
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