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 ...

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 ...

WEST VALLEY CITY, Utah (ABC4) — The Utah Veterans Memorial honored the Navajo Code Talkers from World War Two by unveiling a memorial statue today. During World War Two, Navajo Code Talkers were ...

Three separate celebrations will mark National Navajo Code Talkers Day on Aug. 14, each honoring the last two surviving Navajo Code Talkers — Thomas H. Begay and Peter MacDonald Sr. – and celebrating ...

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 ...

On this day in 1982, President Ronald Reagan proclaimed a day to remember the service and sacrifice of over 400 young indigenous men who are historically remembered as the Navajo Code Talkers of World ...

Philip Johnston brought a bold idea to the Marine Corps in February 1942. Growing up on the Navajo reservation as a missionary’s son, he learned to speak their language fluently. At Camp Elliott, ...

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 ...