Lawrence Vizenor in his military uniform, ca. 1918. Printed in Daniel Nelson’s Becker County, Minnesota, in the World War, 1917-1918-1919 (Detroit Lakes, MN: Nelson, [1920?]).
Lawrence Alexious Vizenor (White Earth Ojibwe) left his home in Becker County, Minnesota, to enlist in the army and fight in World War I in 1918. Before mustering out the following year, he earned military honors and a promotion to corporal.