![]() ![]() The use of this code allowed messages to be sent and decoded in minutes, instead of hours – saving an untold amount of lives. Ned and hundreds of others invent an unbreakable code that was used throughout the Pacific Theater. Suddenly Navajo language speakers – the defining aspect of a people’s culture – are needed to assist the United States defeat Japan. From when he was six until he was sixteen, his culture and beliefs were shamed and ridiculed as useless. Growing up, Ned, was continuously told that nothing Navajo contained any value. The book represents cultural difference in the most profound way, as that between life and death. Then he traces his time through Boarding Schools, which ultimately led him to the Marines and becoming a Code Talker in the Pacific Theater during World War II.Ĭode Talkers took Bruchac about 20 years to write and offers a fictionalized account of the Navajo contribution to the war that wasn’t acknowledged until 1969. It starts with Ned’s earliest memories growing up on the Dine – Navajo land in Southwest United States. ![]() ![]() The telling begins with Ned surrounded by his grandchildren. Ned Begay, the narrator of the story is a proud member of the Navajo Tribe. ![]()
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