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Code talker. Choctaw soldiers in training in World War I for coded radio and telephone transmissions. A code talker was a person employed by the military during wartime to use a little-known language as a means of secret communication. The term is most often used for United States service members during the World Wars who used their knowledge ...
Navajo Woman at a waterfall c. 1920. The Navajo Nation ( Navajo: Naabeehó Bináhásdzo ), also known as Navajoland, [3] is an Indian reservation of Navajo people in the United States. It occupies portions of northeastern Arizona, northwestern New Mexico, and southeastern Utah. The seat of government is located in Window Rock, Arizona .
The Navajo Nation operates Tséhootsooí Diné Bi'ólta', a Navajo language immersion school for grades K-8 in Fort Defiance, Arizona. Located on the Arizona-New Mexico border in the southeastern quarter of the Navajo Reservation , the school strives to revitalize Navajo among children of the Window Rock Unified School District .
Kenji Kawano has been photographing the Navajo code talkers, America's secret weapon during WWII, for 50 years. It all started in 1975 with a chance encounter that would take over his life.
Peter MacDonald (Navajo leader) Peter MacDonald (born December 16, 1928) is a Native American politician and the only four term Chairman of the Navajo Nation. MacDonald was born in Arizona, U.S. and served the U.S. Marine Corps in World War II as a Navajo Code Talker. He was first elected Navajo Tribal Chairman in 1970.
Navajo Nation president Jonathan Nez has a proposal for Washington’s new team name. Nez would like to see the organization honor the Native American people by naming the team the “Code Talkers.”
The Navajo Nation Code defines who may become or act as president upon the absence of a sitting president or a president-elect. Should the president, under circumstances outlined in the Navajo Nation Code at §1005(d)-1006, be unable to serve out his full term, then the vice president shall act in his place for the remainder of the term, or until the president is able to resume his duties ...
5. Other work. Ammunition inspector. Alfred K. Newman (July 7, 1924 – January 13, 2019) was a United States Marine, best known for serving as a Navajo code talker during World War II . Born in Rehoboth, New Mexico, [1] on the Navajo Nation, Newman and his fellow native students were not allowed to speak the Navajo language in school. [2]