Code talker : a novel about the Navajo Marines of World War Two /
Joseph Bruchac.
- New York : Speak, 2006, c2005.
- 231 p. ; 21 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-227).
Sent away -- Boarding school -- To be forgotten -- Progress -- High school -- Sneak attack -- Navajos wanted -- New recruits -- Blessingway -- Boot camp -- Code school -- Learning the code -- Shipping out to Hawaii -- Enemies -- Field maneuvers -- Bombardment -- First landing -- On Bougainville -- Do you have a Navajo? -- Next targets -- Guam -- Fatigue -- Pavavu -- Iwo Jima -- In sight of Suribachi -- Black beach -- Okinawa -- Bomb -- Going home -- Author's note -- Selected bibliography -- Acknowledgments.
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 --Participation, Indian--Juvenile fiction.
Navajo language--Fiction. Cryptography--Fiction. Navajo Indians--Fiction. Indians of North America--Southwest, New--Fiction. World War, 1939-1945--Fiction.