Controversy
In the last decade, the employment of the Buffalo Soldiers by the United States Army in the Indian Wars has led a few historians to call for the "critical reappraisal" of the "Negro regiments." In this viewpoint, shared by a small minority, the Buffalo Soldiers were used as mere shock troops or accessories to the forcefully-expansionist goals of the U.S. government at the expense of the Native Americans and other minorities.
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