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Code talker
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Derrick Henry,Joseph Bruchac |
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 Wo… |
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Navajo Code Talkers
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Nathan Aaseng |
The gripping story of the Native American volunteers who provided a unique military service during WW II to the very government that had oppressed their people. Using their own language, specially tr… |
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Windtalkers
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Max Allan Collins |
During the invasion of Sai-pan near the end of World War II, Marine Joe Enders is given the task of protecting Navajo radioman Ben Yahzee, called a codetalker, or killing him if he falls into enemy J… |
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American Indians and African Americans of the American Revolution--through primary sources
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John Micklos |
"Examines the lives and roles of African Americans and American Indians during the American Revolution, including the difficulty of choosing sides in the war and fighting for the Americans and the Br… |
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Navajo code talkers
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Andrew Santella |
Describes the function of the more than 400 Navajo marines who invented a secret code that was never broken by the enemy during World War II. |
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Native American code talkers
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M. M. Eboch |
This title examines the Native American servicemen known as the code talkers, focusing on their role in coded communication during World War II including developing the codes, their training, and the… |
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Sioux code talkers of World War II
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Andrea M. Page |
"The author's great-uncle John Bear King was a Sioux Indian in the First Cavalry in the Second World War. Her book follows seven Sioux who put aside a long history of prejudice against their people a… |
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The Rope catcher
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Larry Stillman |
It is April of 1942, and 28-year-old Jimmie Goodluck leadsd an aimless existence on the Navajo reservation, where he knows only poverty, prejudice, and lack of opportunity. Everything changes whenhe … |
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American Indian code talkers
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Julia Garstecki |
A brief look at the use of American Indian soldiers who used their native languages to communicate during World War II to prevent enemies from understanding what was being said. |
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Tuscarora heroes
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Lee Simonson |
"This is the true story about how the Tuscarora heroes risked their lives, took their courageous stand, and came to the aid of their friends and neighbors--saving the lives of Lewiston's grateful cit… |
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The Confederate Cherokees
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W. Craig Gaines |
Although many Indian nations fought in the Civil War, historians have given little attention to the role Native Americans played in the conflict. Indian nations did, in fact, suffer a higher percenta… |
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African Americans and American Indians fighting in the Revolutionary War
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John Micklos |
"Learn about the contributions of African Americans and American Indians to both sides during the Revolutionary War"--Provided by publisher. |
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The Civil War in the West
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Jim Corrigan |
Reviews Civil War battles and campaigns that took place in the west and explores how Native Americans responded to the war, either by fighting for the Union or Confederacy or by remaining neutral. |
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The Other Rebellion
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Eric Van Young |
"Mexico's movement toward independence from Spain was a key episode in the dissolution of the great Spanish Empire, and its accompanying armed conflict was arguably the first great war of decolonizat… |
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Three Day Road
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Joseph Boyden |
It is 1919, and Niska, the last Oji-Cree medicine woman to live off the land, has received word that one of the two boys she grudgingly saw off to war has returned. She leaves her home in the bush of… |
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