perhaps john gibson also known as captain -- also a recognition of a traditional choctaw name. again, the presence of these choctaw traditional names on the civil war military wrecked kurds exemplifies how much this quintessentially american event included other people who did not identify as americans. the date on the record, the date in place of the records reveals patterns about when and where soldiers enlisted into this mountain rifle group. almost 70% of the records include this information, which only makes sense if you think about trying to keep track of how long the period is opposed to last. you definitely want to keep track of when and where they enlisted so you know when their terms of service should end. we can see in these records that the majority of the enlistments took place in 1861. june and july were especially popular months to enlist. 950 soldiers enlisted in these two months alone. the doctor and louisiana for the confederacy is even more remarkable given that the choctaws did not sign a treaty with the confederacy until july of 1861. the choctaw man who ar

nelson's company or captain edmund gardner's company or our captain shimontha and parentheses john gibson's company these company names were pre-printed on these enlisted and enlistment records. so again reinforcing how frequently they occur and that people knew these companies by these other names and the use of i again, i think of choctaw language and english names is all so no noteworthy. so cinti is snake and choctaw and noah means walk so that walking snake and captain sent anoe's name walking snake company and sentineloa's company is a translation of of his name. and so i think it's interesting to ponder that that the traditional choctaw language name was was included similarly. shimon to may come from the choctaw word shima which means to dress up or embellish and so perhaps this john gibson. also known as captain simone says company is again a recognition of a traditional choctaw nation. so again the presence of these choctaw traditional names on these civil war military records exemplifies how much this quintessentially american event included other people who did not identify as a

90s although evangelicals love that movie i couldn't find a way to bring mel gibson from braveheart into the title but i saw john wayne popping up and john wayne seems puzzling because john wayne, not evangelical. not known as the poster boy of family values at all and it is reminiscent of donald trump obviously as well. and there's something else john wayne does. in his movies he represented the good guy with a gun. the white man who brought order through violence and in his greatest hits, doing nonwhite populations,the mexicans, the vietnamese and native americans . and that's what he came to symbolize. during this critical moment in the 1960s and 1970s in particular and he's popular more as a cowboy hero in the cold war era and increasingly came to symbolize this rugged traditional even retrograde white masculine power. and he did so on screen he did so offscreen as well and he was a strong proponent of conservative politics, of barry goldwater, phyllis schlafly and his close friend ronald reagan . he was quite racist and very pro-law and order. anti-the. so he embodies this ideology in so many ways. and that