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

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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bruchac, Joseph, 1942-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Dial Books, [2005]
Subjects:
United States. > Marine Corps > Indian troops > Fiction.
United States. > Marine Corps > Participation, Indian > Juvenile fiction.
Navajo language > Fiction.
Cryptography > Fiction.
Navajo code talkers > Fiction.
Navajo Indians > Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945 > Fiction.
Indians of North America > Southwest, New > Fiction.
Navajo language > Juvenile fiction.
Cryptograpy > Juvenile fiction.
Navajo Indians > Juvenile fiction.
Indians of North America > Southwest, New > Juvenile fiction.
World War, 1939-1945 > Juvenile fiction.
Description
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.
Physical Description:231 pages ; 22 cm.
Awards:American Library Association, 2006.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-227).
ISBN:0803729219