He began drinking heavily, eventually drinking himself to death in 1955 on his tribe’s remote Arizona reservation. He was immortalized in the folk song “The Ballad of Ira Hayes.” ...

Until recently, a page on the Defense Department’s website celebrated Pfc. Ira Hayes, a Pima Indian who was one of the six Marines photographed hoisting a U.S. flag on Iwo Jima in 1945, as an ...

Beach, who belongs to the Salteaux tribe from Manitoba, Canada, isn’t worried that anyone will relate his portrayal of Ira Hayes to the stereotypical “alcoholic Indian,” but he felt an ...

Ira Hayes, alongside five other Marines, raised the U.S. flag on the island of Iwo Jima at the summit of Mount Suribachi on February 23, 1945. Photo by Joe Rosenthal | Associated Press/public domain ...

The U.S. Department of Defense in early 2025 removed a webpage about Ira Hayes, a Marine and Pima Nation member best known for being one of the six men who raised a U.S. flag on Iwo Jima during WWII.