THE MAKING OF A WAR HERO T
his Oneida hero was molded by four great influences; his up- bringing on the Wisconsin Onei- da Reservation during a time of crisis for all American Indians, his education at the United States
Indian Industrial School at Carlisle, Pa., his involvement in Episcopal Church matters and the guidance of its clerics, and the long tradi- tion of Oneida military service in the United States Armed Forces.
Josiah was born to Rebecca and Peter
Powless on Aug. 1, 1871, on the 65,400-acre Oneida reservation on Wisconsin. His ances- tors had left their central New York homeland along with the majority of Oneidas in the 1820s and 1830s under immense pressures caused by the opening of the Erie Canal and the resulting attempts by land companies to acquire tribal lands. Powless and nearly 500 Oneidas attended Carlisle Indian Industrial School, coming
American Expeditionary Force field hospital in wrecked church, Neuvrilly, France, Sept. 26, 1918. U.S. Army Signal Corps. #27410, Lot 7868.
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