RIP old timer... RIP
I've heard that his brother, Sue Wolf Guts, was not a man to be crossed.
Clarence Wolf Guts, Thanks and say hello to everyone in heaven for me.
Never heard of Lakota code talkers in the Army. Time for a little historical research.
RIP, soldier. And cool name BTW.
RIP and thank you for your service.
"The name code talkers is strongly associated with bilingual Navajo speakers specially recruited during World War II by the Marines to serve in their standard communications units in the Pacific Theater. Code talking, however, was pioneered by Choctaw Indians serving in the U.S. Army during World War I. These soldiers are referred to as Choctaw Code Talkers.In fact, the only hits I could find online for either Ogala, Lakota, or Dakota code talkers were for this hero's funeral.
"Other Native American code talkers were used by the United States Army during World War II, using Cherokee, Choctaw and Comanche soldiers. Soldiers of Basque ancestry were used for code talking by the US Marines during World War II in areas where other Basque speakers were not expected to be operating."
"It is estimated that at least 18 tribes have contributed Code Talkers to both world wars. These include Cheyenne, Comanche, Cherokee, Choctaw, Osage, and Yankton Sioux in WWI, and in WWII, Chippewa, Choctaw, Comanche, Creek, Hopi, Kiowa, Menominee, Muscogee-Seminole, Navajo, Oneida, Pawnee, Sac and Fox (Meskwaki) and Sioux (both Lakota and Dakota dialects). There may be others - this still needs to be fully investigated."
Wolf Guts. You gotta luv a name like that. It reminds of a joke I heard. A young indian brave went to his father and asked how his name had been chosen. His father said, “I chose my children’s names from the first thing I see after they were born. What troubles you, Two Dogs F*cking?”
From the Lakota Country Times June 23 -29, 2010
http://www.lakotacountrytimes.com/news/2010-06-23/The_Holy_Road/Clarence_Wolf_Guts.html
There is a picture of Clarence Wof Guts.
American Hero
He offered his services again after 9/11. A Real Patroit.
Clarence Wolf Guts
WANBLEE - Clarence Wolf Guts, 86, Wanblee, died Wednesday, June 16, 2010, at the State Veterans Home in Hot Springs.
Survivors include a son, Don Doyle, Wanblee; eight grandchildren; and 30 great-grandchildren. A two-night wake began on Sunday, June 20, at TNT Center.
Funeral services were Tuesday, June 22, at the TNT Center, with the Rev. Rick Abert officiating. Traditional Lakota services were provided by Richard Moves Camp.
Burial, with full military honors followed at Black Hills National Cemetery near Sturgis. Sioux Funeral Home of Pine Ridge is in charge of arrangements.
( The following story is by Holly Meyer of the Rapid City Journal):
When the towers of the World Trade Center fell on Sept. 11, 2001, Clarence Wolf Guts asked his son to call the U.S. Department of Defense to see if the country needed his code talking abilities to find Osama Bin Laden.
Wolf Guts was in his late 70s at the time, so his son, Don Doyle, did not make the call, but said the request personified his father’s love of country.
“He still wanted to help. He was trying to still be patriotic,” Doyle said.
Wolf Guts, 86, the last surviving Oglala Lakota code talker, died Wednesday afternoon at the South Dakota State Veterans Home in Hot Springs.
The rest of the Obituary at:
http://www.lakotacountrytimes.com/news/2010-06-23/The_Holy_Road/Clarence_Wolf_Guts.html
We were on a church mission trip at the Crazy Horse School in Wanblee, SD at the time of his wake and funeral