Talk:Dog Soldier/@comment-27977344-20190404142408/@comment-34254290-20190404214606

unlike in Vietnam, "dog" here is not an insult. Lakota military societies took names of animals (coyote, fox, elk, bull...) because that's what their prophet Sweet Medicine declared. After Sweet Medicine departure, they (or just the leader) dreamed (or had vision) of war dog spirit, and use that name for their new military society, Dog Men.