Apache safety in Afghanistan

[dalek]

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[airpolice]

Dalek.

Mod's don't do that.

They are neither required to inform posters, nor in the habit of doing so.

That's just the way it is.

AP

[London Eye]

You really shouldn't worry:

The largest Apache urban communities are in Oklahoma City (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklahoma_City), Kansas City (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kansas_City_Metropolitan_Area), Phoenix (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix,_Arizona), Denver (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denver), San Diego (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Diego) and Los Angeles (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles). Some Apacheans were employed in migrant (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Migrant_worker) farm labor and relocated to the central agricultural regions of Southern California (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_California), such as the Coachella (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coachella_Valley), Imperial (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_Valley) and Colorado River (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado_River) valleys, where now tens of thousands of Apacheans live.

If there are any Native Americans serving in Afghanistan whether Apachean or otherwise, which I suspect is highly likely, then I really do hope that they stay safe through their tours.

[airpolice]

It's not just the Apache that we need to worry about. I have a friend living in Broken Arrow, just outside Tulsa, and he has sent me a DVD of a genuine PowWow which is like a Native American version of our Highland Games.

Lots of different tribes have youngsters moving off the reservations and into mainstream life, includng the armed forces.

I can see how being posted to anywhere outside the mainland US would potentially be a problem for them since most of Europe would associate them with Custer's last stand and even though it was 150 years ago, those were dark days for North America.


The Chinook tribe have their own website at Chinook Indian Nation (http://www.chinooktribe.org/) and there's no mention of them having a presence in Afghanistan but I hear it talked about on the news quite often.