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Code talker

a novel about the Navajo Marines of World War Two

by Joseph Bruchac, Derrick Henry · 2005

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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.

CryptograpyIndians of North AmericaNavajo languageUnited States. Marine CorpsJuvenile fictionNavajo IndiansNavajo code talkersIndian ParticipationFictionUnited StatesWorld War, 1939-1945Cryptography