As young marines, Peter MacDonald and Thomas Begay transmitted top secret military messages using their native language. It was an undercover mission that changed U.S. intelligence operations forever.

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 ...

National Navajo Code Talker Day, celebrated on Aug. 14, recognizes Code Talkers' service during WWII. Over 400 Navajo Code Talkers participated in the war, using an encrypted code made from the Navajo ...

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 ...

From painting over a Black Lives Matter mural to temporarily scrubbing web stories of Navajo Code Talkers, scholars and activists say the Trump administration is trying to erase non-white history.

12:00 pm ET / 11:00 am CT / 10:00 am MT / 9:00 am PT In this powerful episode of Native Bidaské, former Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez delivers a passionate discussion about the recent removal ...

PHOENIX (AP) — 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 ...

GALLUP — Zonnie Gorman remembers the first time she saw an old photo of a group of young, sleek, clean-cut Navajo men — men who would go on to become the Navajo Code Talkers during World War II. The ...

Navajo Nation leaders and families of code talkers had pushed back against the removals. Peter MacDonald Sr., 96, said he felt relieved. As one of the two last living Navajo code talkers who sent ...