Tag Archives: Navajo code talkers and contgributions by Native Americans

I just finished reading, Code Talkers, written by Chester Nez and Judith Schiess Avila. It is a beautifully written biography of Chester Nez, one of thirty-two Navajo code talkers, who helped win battles in the Pacific area during WWII. Mr. Nez also shared his younger years when he was taken away from his parents to be educated in the government’s school program for assimilation of Native Americans into the American culture by eliminating their cultures and languages. The government was…..

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