WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. ­– In a news release from the office of the Navajo Nation President, a proclamation was signed Wednesday, Aug. 14 to declare the date as Navajo Code Talker Day. Navajo President Buu ...

Navajo code talker John Kinsel, Sr. celebrated a major milestone earlier this year — his 106th birthday. Who were the World War II Navajo Code Talkers? During World War II, the U.S. Marines selected a ...

Navajo code talkers used their language to devise a code that helped America win WWII. Many Native American children were punished for speaking their native tongues. The code talkers' legacy is an ...

Aug. 14 is Navajo Code Talkers Day, a date President Ronald Reagan dedicated in 1982 to "all members of the Navaho Nation and to all Native Americans who gave their special talents and their lives so ...

(Tribune News Service) — A group of Native American soldiers deployed their unique language skills to prevent German and Japanese code breakers from deciphering American military communications during ...

National Navajo Code Talkers Day is celebrated on Aug. 14, the day World War II ended in 1945. The day is not only to commemorate the contributions of Native American code talkers, but also Alaska ...

PHOENIX – It’s been 80 years since the first Navajo Code Talkers joined the Marines, transmitting messages using a code based on their then-unwritten native language to confound Japanese military ...

Frank Sanache, the last of the “code talkers” from the Meskwaki Indian tribe, died Saturday in Tama, Iowa. He was 86. Sanache was among the “elite eight,” a group of Meskwakis trained to use their ...

When Peter McDonald, Fleming Begaye and Thomas Begay joined the elite fraternity of Navajo Code Talkers during World War II, they had no idea what they were getting into. That was by design. The ...

This is National Navajo Code Talkers Day. They were America's biggest secret weapon in World War II. Outside of the *** bomb, the code talkers simply used their native Navajo language to broadcast ...

WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. — John Kinsel Sr., one of the last remaining Navajo Code Talkers, has passed away at the age of 107, the Navajo Nation Council announced on Saturday. Kinsel was one of about 400 ...

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — The El Pueblo Motor Inn, or what’s left of it anyway, sits vacant behind a chain-link fence along Route 66, its stucco walls clad in weathered sheets of construction tarp. At first ...