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Author:
Bruchac, Joseph, 1942- Author (DLC)n 79042033
Title:
Code talker : a novel about the Navajo Marines of World War Two / Joseph Bruchac.
Publisher:
Speak,
Copyright Date:
2006
Description:
231 pages 22 cm.
Subject:
United States.--Marine Corps--Indian troops--Fiction
Navajo language--Fiction
Code and cipher stories
Navajo code talkers--Fiction
Navajo Indians--Fiction
Indians of North America--Southwest, New--Fiction
World War, 1939-1945--Fiction
Notes:
Originally published: New York : Dial Books, 2005. Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-227).
Summary:
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 in their native tongue during World War II.
ISBN:
1435267591 : PBD
9781435267596 : PBD
LCCN:
bl2006017627
Locations:
GYPE631 -- Knoxville Public Library (Knoxville)

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