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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
910L
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
Brand book volume 40, no. 1
Publisher
English Westerners Society
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Publisher
University of California Extension Center for Media and Independent Learning [distributor]
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Explores from the Native point of view the complex story of the role that the Native American code talkers and the Navajo language played in secret communications during World War II. No cryptography system proved as effective during the war as did the use of Navajo code talkers using their tribal language to transmit military communiques. Countless American lives were saved because of the service of these brave young Native American Marines.
Publisher
Distributed by PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Explores from the Native point of view the complex story of the role that the Native American code talkers and the Navajo language played in secret communications during World War II. No cryptography system proved as effective during the war as did the use of Navajo code talkers using their tribal language to transmit military communiques. Countless American lives were saved because of the service of these brave young Native American Marines.
Author
Series
Publisher
Compass Point Books
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
1020L
Language
English
Description
Describes the use of the Navajo language in World War II, discussing why it was used, how the code was developed, and the Native Americans who bravely fought for the United States.
Author
Publisher
Creative Editions
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
980L
Language
English
Description
"Amidst a complicated history of mistreatment by and distrust of the American government, the Navajo people--especially bilingual code talkers--helped the Allies win World War II"--
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
960L
Language
English
Description
"By the time the United States joined the Second World War in 1941, the fight against Nazi and Axis powers had already been under way for two years. In order to win the war and protect its soldiers, the US Marines recruited twenty-nine Navajo men to create a secret code that could be used to send military messages quickly and safely across battlefields. Author James Buckley Jr. explains how these brave and intelligent men developed their amazing code,...