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From Ira Hayes to Lori Piestewa, Arizona’s Indigenous war heroes were literally erased from the annals of military history ...
I woke up at three o’clock one morning thinking about the Navajo code talkers from World War II and how the Pentagon removed them from its website. And then I thought about Jackie Robinson and women ...
PHOENIX — The Pentagon restored some web pages highlighting the crucial wartime contributions of Navajo Code Talkers and other Native American veterans on Wednesday, days after tribes condemned the ...
A recent letter talked about Navajos fighting in World War II being used to send messages in their native language so the enemy couldn’t understand. I thought they were known as Navajo Code Talkers.
Ronald Begay, the son of Navajo Code Talker Thomas H. Begay, said recent actions by the federal government brought disappointment and disbelief to his family and many others. When websites ...
DURANT, Oklahoma (KXII) - Before the famous Navajo Code Talkers made an impact in World War II --- the Choctaw Code Talkers laid the program’s foundation during World War I. Joseph Oklahombi ...
We’re mining the archives for some of Robin Abrahams’s hit columns you may have missed (this one is from 2005). On a recent restaurant visit, the ladies lunching next to my father and me spoke ...
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.
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 ...
Records of Jackie Robinson’s service during World War II and the Navajo Code Talkers who were integral in winning the war were just two examples of articles removed from the website. The impact ...
Reflecting on the Dutch celebration, I was reminded of it again this past week when news broke that articles recognizing the contributions of the Navajo Code Talkers during World War II were being ...
Hayes was a Code Talker, a Native American who used his language to baffle the Japanese forces. Descriptions of that moment and the contributions of other Code Talkers, who mostly were Navajo and ...