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This clip provides background on the geopolitical dimensions of the outbreak of World War I

It's the story of nearly 375,000 people: men, women, and children, in the ordering of whose lives, all citizens of the United States participate in discharge of obligations set up by treaty and by law. Men, women, and children in every state and the District of Columbia, but resident in greatest numbers in the West and Southwest, where 90% of the 51 million acres in the country's 265 Indian reservations are situated. It's the story of an outdoor people who live on farms and ranches, in the forests and in the desert. Forest and stream, where abundant wildlife provided everything the hunter needed for his subsistence are naturally associated with the American Indian. Happily situated are those tribes whose reservations stretched through northern United States from Minnesota west, among them, the Chippewas, formally the Ojibwes, and the Menominees. Now they live in cabins in the same forests their forbears hunted, homes which afford better protection from the region's winters. Many of their poetic beliefs are still marked. Spirit rock has crumbled, but countless generations of Indians who adored it have not crumbled with it nor greatly diminished in numbers.