Code talkers

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Code Talker Wanted Young to Know Power of Navajo Language

3 colleagues survive Samuel Sandoval, 98

(Newser) - Samuel Sandoval, one of the last remaining Navajo Code Talkers, who transmitted messages in World War II using a code based on their native language, has died. Sandoval died late Friday at a hospital in Shiprock, New Mexico, his wife, Malula, told the AP on Saturday. He was 98. Hundreds...

WWII Navajo Code Talker Samuel Holiday Dead at 94
One of the Last WWII Navajo
Code Talkers Has Died
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One of the Last WWII Navajo Code Talkers Has Died

Samuel Holiday was 94

(Newser) - Samuel Tom Holiday, one of the last surviving Navajo Code Talkers, died in southern Utah on Monday surrounded by family members who raised money through a crowdfunding campaign to be by his side. He was 94. Holiday was among hundreds of Navajos who used a code based on their native...

Trump Makes 'Pocahontas' Crack in Front of Navajo War Heroes

President was standing under a portrait of Andrew Jackson at the time

(Newser) - At a White House ceremony Monday honoring Native American war heroes, President Trump referred to Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren as "Pocahontas." The president was paying tribute to three Navajo "code talkers" who helped the US military create an all-but-unbreakable code based on their native language during World...

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