W. Ross Macdonald School Library

Code Talker : a Novel about the Navajo Marines of World War Two /

Bruchac, Joseph, 1942- , author.

Code Talker : a Novel about the Navajo Marines of World War Two / Joseph Bruchac. - New York : Dial Books, 2005. - 231 pages ; 22 cm

Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-227).

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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United States. Marine Corps --Indian troops--Fiction.


Navajo language--Fiction.
Cryptography--Fiction.
Navajo code talkers--Fiction.
Navajo people--Fiction.
Indigenous peoples--United States--Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--Fiction.


FICTION / Historical / 20th Century / World War II.

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