They were told not to speak their language. Those respective languages helped win wars and save countless lives. In episode 109, Laurel takes the Smoke Circle through the incredible story of the Indigenous code talkers of World War I and II--the Navajo, Comanche, and other Native American men whose voices became unbreakable codes in the Pacific and European fronts. Their history is a story of courage and cultural resilience.
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Picture of Donald Trump with the code talkers in 2017
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Source Material and References:
Reid, Darren R. Native American racism in the age of Donald Trump: Historical and contemporary perspectives. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020.
Code Talker: The First and Only Memoir By One of the Original Codetalkers of WWII
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11437988-code-talker
https://www.jstor.org/stable/41054076?read-now=1&seq=7#page_scan_tab_contents
https://www.jstor.org/stable/42575905?read-now=1&seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
https://americanindian.si.edu/why-we-serve/topics/code-talkers/
https://www.history.com/articles/world-war-is-native-american-code-talkers
https://www.history.com/articles/wwii-navajo-code-talker-fleming-begaye-dead
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Intro/outro music: "Loopster" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/