Code Talker

A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two

By Joseph Bruchac
(Speak, Paperback, 9780142405963, 240pp.)

Publication Date: July 6, 2006

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Categories: People & Places - United States - Native American, Historical - Military & Wars

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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 World War II in their native tongue.

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