NAVAJO NATION (KRQE) – This week, the Navajo Nation honored a group of Indigenous wartime heroes. Thursday was National Navajo Code Talkers Day, and hundreds gathered in Window Rock, Arizona, to honor ...
Aug. 14 is National Navajo Code Talker Day, an annual celebration recognizing the Code Talkers who served with the U.S. Marine Corps in the Pacific theater during World War II. The designation was ...
Eighty years ago, as the sea swayed him from side to side on an attack vessel heading towards Iwo Jima, Thomas Begay started to feel afraid. “On the ship, they said: ‘get your last scrap of steak and ...
FLAGSTAFF, AZ (AZFamily) — Long before it sat vacant on Route 66, the El Pueblo Motor Inn played a pivotal role in World War II. This is where the first Navajo Code Talkers were recruited, and now, 80 ...
$14.95; 256 pages. In the early months of World War II, Japanese cryptographers, many of whom were graduates of American universities, had been extremely successful in unraveling U.S. military codes ...
A one-woman play to be hosted at Haskell Indian Nations University, “Native Vision,” will portray bravery and resilience ...
ROCHESTER — The last Thursdays Downtown of the 2025 season will feature a tribute to the heroic Navajo veterans whose unbreakable code helped secure victory in World War II. The tribute program, ...
Fleming Begaye Sr., a Navajo code talker in World War II who was honored at a White House ceremony in 2017, during which President Donald Trump mocked Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s claims of Native American ...
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