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.
Genres
- Cryptograpy
- Indians of North America
- Navajo language
- United States. Marine Corps
- Juvenile fiction
- Navajo Indians
- Navajo code talkers
- Indian Participation
- Fiction
- United States
- World War, 1939-1945
- Cryptography
- Indian troops
- Code and cipher stories
- American Indians
- Native Americans
- Indian
- Military participation
- World War (1939-1945) fast (OCoLC)fst01180924
- Historical fiction
- Navajo
- Reading Level-Grade 5
- Reading Level-Grade 4
- Reading Level-Grade 7
- Reading Level-Grade 6
- Reading Level-Grade 9
- Reading Level-Grade 8
- Reading Level-Grade 10
- Children's fiction
- Indians of north america, fiction
- World war, 1939-1945, fiction
- Spies, fiction
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