Potawatomi Vet: American Indian Soldiers Wrongly Taxed


Potawatomi Vet: American Indian Soldiers Wrongly Taxed Jokay Dowell, 2010 While browsing the Internet, Prairie Band Pottawatomi tribal citizen and U.S. Army veteran Richard Adame was surprised to find a news article about New Mexico legislation and subsequent negotiations with American Indian veterans in that state to restore state taxes wrongly deducted from their pay by the Department of Defense. “This story concerns all Native Americans who ever served in the U.S. Armed Forces. We...

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