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Author:

Bruchac, Joseph, 1942-

Title:

Code talker : a novel about the Navajo Marines of World War Two / Joseph Bruchac.

Publisher:

Speak,

Copyright Date:

2006, c2005

Description:

231 p. ; 21 cm.

Subject:

United States.--Marine Corps--Participation, Indian--Juvenile fiction.
Navajo language--Juvenile fiction.
Cryptography--Juvenile fiction.
Navajo Indians--Juvenile fiction.
Indians of North America--Southwest, New--Juvenile fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--Juvenile fiction.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-227).

Contents:

Sent away -- Boarding school -- To be forgotten -- Progress -- High school -- Sneak attack -- Navajos wanted -- New recruits -- Blessingway -- Boot camp -- Code school -- Learning the code -- Shipping out to Hawaii -- Enemies -- Field maneuvers -- Bombardment -- First landing -- On Bougainville -- Do you have a Navajo? -- Next targets -- Guam -- Fatigue -- Pavavu -- Iwo Jima -- In sight of Suribachi -- Black beach -- Okinawa -- Bomb -- Going home -- Author's note -- Selected bibliography -- Acknowledgments.

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 during World War II in their native tongue.

ISBN:

9780142405963
0142405965

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