Her research started at home in Crystal, New Mexico, where she wondered what her grandfather experienced as a Navajo Code Talker Danielle Burbank collected each and every book on Navajo Code Talkers ...

Written with code talker scholar Schiess Avila, Nez's fascinating memoir details his experience as one of the original 29 "code talkers"%E2%80%94a group of Native ...

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 ...

For nearly 50 years, Kenji Kawano has been photographing the Navajo Code Talkers of World War II throughout America's southwest. "It became my life's work," Kawano said. It's a lifelong project that ...

While the story of Native American “code talkers” in World War II is now fairly well known, Prof. Meadows (Missouri State), gives us a first look at the efforts to use First American personnel as ...

Kenji Kawano was hitchhiking on the Navajo Nation when Carl Gorman pulled over to give him a lift. During the drive, Kawano, then 23, explained that he'd arrived in the U.S. two years earlier with ...

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 ...

The Pentagon has restored webpages detailing the contributions of Navajo Code Talkers and other Native American veterans after widespread backlash to their initial removal. Webpages highlighting the ...

Copies of the new book by author Danielle Burbank gives elementary school readers insight into the Navajo Code Talkers. (Courtesy photo) Danielle Burbank collected each and every book on Navajo Code ...