{"id":14279,"date":"2016-10-05T16:46:52","date_gmt":"2016-10-05T21:46:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mma-tx.org\/blog\/?p=14279"},"modified":"2021-04-22T10:39:55","modified_gmt":"2021-04-22T15:39:55","slug":"two-mma-cadets-tribal-members-of-potawatomi-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mma-tx.org\/blog\/14279\/two-mma-cadets-tribal-members-of-potawatomi-nation\/","title":{"rendered":"Two MMA cadets tribal members of Potawatomi Nation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Native American cadets discover they belong to the same nation in history class<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mma-tx.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/rushwulfkuhle_website2.jpg\" alt=\"rush and wulfkuhle\" class=\"wp-image-14280\" width=\"473\" height=\"463\"\/><figcaption><em>(Left to right) Marine Military Academy juniors Cameron Rush of Bakersfield, Calif., and Anthony Wulfkuhle of Glendale, Ariz., are both tribal members of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>In history class, two Marine Military Academy cadets discovered they not only share Native American roots, but they actually belong to the same nation!<br><br>Juniors Cameron Rush of Bakersfield, Calif., and Anthony Wulfkuhle of Glendale, Ariz., both met for the first time in August in their U.S. History class. It was during a lesson on Native Americans that the teenagers learned about their connection to the Citizen Potawatomi Nation in Shawnee, Okla.<br><br>According to Wulfkuhle, their history teacher Randall Hill was telling the class how he was a Native American originally from Pottawatomie County in Oklahoma.<br><br>\u201cI told my teacher: That\u2019s the county of my tribe. I\u2019m Potawatomi,\u201d Wulfkuhle said. \u201cThen Rush said, \u2018I am, too!\u2019\u201d<br><br>Though no one doubted the boys, Rush and Wulfkuhle gladly proved their Potawatomi ancestry.<br><br>\u201cA few days later, we both brought our Potawatomi IDs to class,\u201d Rush said. \u201cIt was pretty cool.\u201d<br><br>Rush is the son of Jennifer Betti of Bakersfield, Calif., and Brent Rush of Edmond, Okla. His Potawatomi lineage comes from his father\u2019s side.<br><br>Wulfkuhle is the grandson of Somporn and Joseph Wulfkuhle of Glendale, Ariz. His Potawatomi lineage also comes from his father\u2019s side.<br><br>Both young men have proven to be exemplary cadets at MMA. Wulfkuhle, a first-year cadet, was already named the September 2016 Cadet of the Month for Echo Company. Rush, a third-year cadet, was named the September 2015 Cadet of the Month for Fox Company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>(Left to right) Marine Military Academy juniors Cameron Rush of Bakersfield, Calif., and Anthony Wulfkuhle of Glendale, Ariz., are both tribal members of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Native American cadets discover they belong to the same nation in history class In history class, two Marine Military Academy cadets discovered they not only share Native American roots, but they actually belong to the same nation! Juniors Cameron Rush of Bakersfield, Calif., and Anthony Wulfkuhle of Glendale, Ariz., both met for the first time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14280,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":6}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mma-tx.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mma-tx.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mma-tx.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mma-tx.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mma-tx.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14279"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.mma-tx.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14525,"href":"https:\/\/www.mma-tx.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14279\/revisions\/14525"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mma-tx.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mma-tx.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mma-tx.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mma-tx.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}