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Bruchac, Joseph,
1942-
Code talker :
a novel about the Navajo Marines of World War Two /
Joseph Bruchac.
New York :
Dial Books,
2005.
231 p. ;
22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-227).
After being taught in a boarding school run by whites that Navajo is a useless language, Ned Begay and other Navajo men are recruited by the Marines to become Code Talkers, sending messages during World War II in their native tongue.
20120616.
United States
Marine Corps
Indian troops
Fiction.
Navajo language
Fiction.
Cryptography
Fiction.
Navajo code talkers
Fiction.
Navajo Indians
Fiction.
Indians of North America
Southwest, New
Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945
Fiction.
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