Code talker
a novel about the Navajo Marines of World War Two
About this book
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.
Subjects
- american indians
- children's fiction
- code and cipher stories
- cryptography
- cryptograpy
- fiction
- historical fiction
- indian
- indian participation
- indians of north america
- indians of north america, fiction
- indian troops
- juvenile fiction
- military participation
- native americans
- navajo
- navajo code talkers
- navajo indians
- navajo language
- reading level-grade 10
- reading level-grade 4
- reading level-grade 5
- reading level-grade 6
- reading level-grade 7
- reading level-grade 8
- reading level-grade 9
- spies, fiction
- united states
- united states. marine corps
- world war, 1939-1945
- world war (1939-1945) fast (ocolc)fst01180924
- world war, 1939-1945, fiction