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Throughout the 1900s the British Australian govt employed aborigines as police to suppress other aborigines from tribes not their own. Could this practice have been used in the USA. That is using employing Native Americans in armed divisions to suppress other tribes. Such as using Cherokees against the Sioux in the 1870s.

EDIT:
I should elaborate. I don't mean the general use of Native people in the army, I mean the creation of units purposely composed of entirely of native people (except for the head officer perhaps). Much like the US Colored Troops or Buffalo Soldiers.
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