pickPretty good book but I would have liked to see even more detail and any more conflicts they had with others in the military. Also wanted some more about the Navajo culture. Otherwise I'd recommend it if you are into WW2 history.
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pickPretty good book but I would have liked to see even more detail and any more conflicts they had with others in the military. Also wanted some more about the Navajo culture. Otherwise I'd recommend it if you are into WW2 history.
Starting a book about the Navajos who kept radio messages from the Japanese in WW2. They spoke in a version of Navajo which the enemy could not figure out. There were about 500 in the war.
“By the end of the war, more than 400 Navajos had served as code talkers. They had been told in school that their language was no good, but they had proven that wasn't true. The Navajo code helped win World War II.“
At the end of the book, there is an Author's note about Chester Nez' life! He wrote a memoir called Code Talker: The First and Only Memoir by One of the Original Navajo Code Talkers of WWII.
pickA book about a Navajo boy named Betoli, who was forced to take the English name “Chester“ at a residential school. Chester and other Navajo people were able to cleverly create and use a code using the Navajo language that enemy nations could not decipher. Chester Nez was a real “code-talker“ who helped win WWII! It talks about the abuses/trauma Chester faced at the residential schools as well.
Meant to post about this in June...Yikes! It's already almost August.
Just wanted to post about this 100 year anniversary.
The Indigenous people in the U.S.A. were not considered American citizens until June 1924.
The “Americas“ (as in both continents) had a beautiful landscape, occupied by numerous tribes for millennia.👇
