As young marines, Peter MacDonald and Thomas Begay transmitted top secret military messages using their native language. It ...

Aug. 14 is Navajo Code Talkers Day, a date President Ronald Reagan dedicated in 1982 to "all members of the Navaho Nation and to all Native Americans who gave their special talents and their lives so ...

WINDOW ROCK — It took Larry Foster 20 years to thoroughly research the history of the Navajo Code Talkers, an elite set of Diné Marines who used their language to create the famous unbreakable code ...

OKLAHOMA CITY -- Several of the last living American Indian "code talkers" were honored Monday at the annual Indian Sovereignty Symposium. Code talkers representing the Navajo and Comanche tribes, ...

WASHINGTON (Army News Service, Nov. 21, 2013) -- American Indian code talkers from 566 tribes were honored with Congressional Silver Medals at the Capitol, Nov. 20. Also, leaders from the tribes' 33 ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — For decades, the wartime service of 96-year-old Edmond Harjo and other American Indian “code talkers” was something that wasn’t even officially acknowledged, let alone publically ...

NMAI copy 39088019930726 Purchased with Adopt-a-Book funds. NMAI copy 39088019930726 signed by author. "Thanks to the 2002 Hollywood film Windtalkers, the Navajo code talkers of World War II emerged ...

Frank Sanache, the last of the “code talkers” from the Meskwaki Indian tribe, died Saturday in Tama, Iowa. He was 86. Sanache was among the “elite eight,” a group of Meskwakis trained to use their ...

PHOENIX — The Pentagon restored some webpages highlighting the crucial wartime contributions of Navajo Code Talkers and other Native American veterans on Wednesday, days after tribes condemned the ...

Native American Code Talkers played a crucial role in the allied victory in World War II. Native American “Code Talkers” played a crucial role in the allied victory in World War II. Coined by the U.S.

In his ancestral Hungjpapha Lakota language, Arnold "Bear King" Hawkins Jr. of San Francisco just told us how honored he was to talk about his grandfather. John "Bear King" Hawkins fought in the ...