navajo code talkers

Come join us to hear award-winning writer and current Navajo Nation Poet Laureate Laura Tohe tell the history of the Navajo Code Talkers of WWII -- a group of young Navajo men enlisted in the Marines unaware that they would develop a secret code against the Japanese military that would save many American lives. Excerpts from live interviews with the Code Talkers tell their stories before, during, and after the [...]

Come join us to hear award-winning writer and current Navajo Nation Poet Laureate Laura Tohe tell the history of the Navajo Code Talkers of WWII -- a group of young Navajo men enlisted in the Marines unaware that they would develop a secret code against the Japanese military that would save many American lives. Excerpts from live interviews with the Code Talkers tell their stories before, during, and after the [...]