WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. ­– In a news release from the office of the Navajo Nation President, a proclamation was signed Wednesday, Aug. 14 to declare the date as Navajo Code Talker Day. Navajo President Buu ...

Navajo code talker John Kinsel, Sr. celebrated a major milestone earlier this year — his 106th birthday. Who were the World War II Navajo Code Talkers? During World War II, the U.S. Marines selected a ...

Navajo code talkers used their language to devise a code that helped America win WWII. Many Native American children were punished for speaking their native tongues. The code talkers' legacy is an ...

(Tribune News Service) — A group of Native American soldiers deployed their unique language skills to prevent German and Japanese code breakers from deciphering American military communications during ...

In order to comply with Donald Trump’s executive orders to eradicate signs of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), the military has removed at least 10 webpages dedicated to the famed Native ...

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 ...

National Navajo Code Talkers Day is celebrated on Aug. 14, the day World War II ended in 1945. The day is not only to commemorate the contributions of Native American code talkers, but also Alaska ...

When Peter McDonald, Fleming Begaye and Thomas Begay joined the elite fraternity of Navajo Code Talkers during World War II, they had no idea what they were getting into. That was by design. The ...

This is National Navajo Code Talkers Day. They were America's biggest secret weapon in World War II. Outside of the *** bomb, the code talkers simply used their native Navajo language to broadcast ...

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — The El Pueblo Motor Inn, or what’s left of it anyway, sits vacant behind a chain-link fence along Route 66, its stucco walls clad in weathered sheets of construction tarp. At first ...