Sergeant First Class John Raymond Rice (Native American name: Walking in Blue Sky[1]) (April 25, 1914 – September 6, 1950) was a Ho Chunk (Winnebago) Indian and a United States Army soldier killed in action while leading his squad in Korea in 1950.

In the Korean War he was killed leading a squad of Company A, 8th Cavalry Regiment, during the Battle of Tabu-dong "one of the most critical and heroic stands made by the hard-pressed United Nations forces.

After the military burial service, including the ceremonial three-volley salute, cemetery officials discovered that Rice himself was Native American.

"[7] The following day, August 29, then-President Harry Truman publicly reprimanded the cemetery and the Sioux City town leaders.

Sergeant Rice was buried on September 5, 1951, nearly a year to the day after he died, in Arlington National Cemetery.