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Code Talker

After being taught in a boarding school run by whites that Navajo is a useless language, Ned Begay and other Navajo men are recruited by the Marines to become Code Talkers, sending messages during Wor

Cryptography, fiction, Indian troops, Indians of North America, Juvenile fiction

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Unsung Heroes of World War Ii

Deanne Durrett

Describes the role of a select group of Navajo Marines who developed a code based on their own native language that provided a means for secure communications among American forces in the Pacific duri

Cryptography, Indian troops, Indians of North America, Juvenile literature, Marine Corps

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