A Code Talker : : a Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War two
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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.
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Awsome submitted by mary teeter on July 29, 2007, 12:42pm I loved this book everybody should read this book. I think it is good for ages 11-111.
Good submitted by 04foremanh on July 27, 2012, 8:29pm Well written and realistic.
Pretty good submitted by c_zhang on June 28, 2019, 3:03pm Very well written. I enjoyed reading it.
PUBLISHED
New York : Dial Books, c2005.
Year Published: 2005
Description: 231 p.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
0142405965
0803729219
SUBJECTS
United States. -- Marine Corps -- Participation, Indian.
Navajo language -- Fiction.
Code and cipher stories.
Navajo Nation -- Fiction.
Native Americans -- Southwest, New -- Fiction.
Indigenous Peoples of North America
Diné
World War, 1939-1945 -- Fiction.