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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.
Publisher
History Channel
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Discover one of the more obscure, yet fascinating aspects of the Civil War era: the contribution of thousands of Native American soldiers. With the help of respected authors Thom Hatch and Lawrence Hauptman, this program reconstructs the stories of some of these forgotten men.
Author
Series
War and the Southwest volume no. 7
Publisher
University of North Texas Press
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"On the stormy night of August 29, 1776, the Continental Army faced annihilation. After losing the Battle of Brooklyn, the British had Washington's army trapped against the East River. The fate of the Revolution rested heavily on the shoulders of the soldier-mariners from Marblehead, Massachusetts. Serving side-by-side in one of the country's first diverse units, they pulled off an "American Dunkirk" and saved the army. In the annals of the American...