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 ...
WASHINGTON − When the southern Cheyenne tribe of Oklahoma holds ceremonies and dances, a song to honor veterans and the raising of an American flag comes first. A medicine man performs a purification ...
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 ...
A long-discussed museum to honor the Code Talkers of WWII has failed to materialize; a nonprofit says the anti-donation ...
The Trump Administration and the Department of Defense are deleting articles on the Navajo Code Talkers. The administration claims that the Code Talkers represent Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI ...
WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. (FOX 5/KUSI) — A group of Young Marines from Camp Pendleton joined youth and adult volunteers from across the nation earlier this month in a powerful tribute to one of World War ...
Joe Palmer, one of the last of the original Navajo Code Talkers from World War II, is dead at 84. Palmer died Nov. 18 at the VA Medical Center in Tucson, according to his family. As a Marine in World ...
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.
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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 ...