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    Talker is still strongly associated with the bilingual Navajo speakers trained in the Navajo Code during World War II by the US Marine Corps to serve in...
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    Navajo are a Native American people of the Southwestern United States. With more than 399,494 enrolled tribal members as of 2021[update], the Navajo Nation...
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    the Navajo Nation. In World War II, speakers of the Navajo language joined the military and developed a code for sending secret messages. These code talkers'...
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  • engineer who is credited with proposing the idea of using the Navajo language as a Navajo code to be used in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Johnston...
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    The Navajo Nation (Navajo: Naabeehó Bináhásdzo), also known as Navajoland, is a Native American reservation of Navajo people in the United States. It...
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    declassification in 1968, the code that these Navajo developed was the only oral military code that was not broken by an enemy. The code itself was composed of...
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    Hispanic and indigenous communities; among them were several of the famed Navajo code talkers, who were critical to protecting U.S. wartime communications...
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  • language. The term code-talker paradox was coined in 2001 by Mark Baker to describe the Navajo code talking used during World War II. Code talkers are able...
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    Chairman of the Navajo Nation. MacDonald was born in Arizona, U.S. and served the U.S. Marine Corps in World War II as a Navajo Code Talker. He was first...
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    every four years. The Navajo Nation President shall serve no more than two consecutive terms. As outlined in the Navajo Nation Code §1001-1006, until 2016...
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    Navajo Nation Code: (2 N.N.C. § 101(A)) The Legislative Branch shall consist of the Navajo Nation Council and any entity established under the Navajo...
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  • Windtalkers (category Navajo code talkers)
    Ruffalo, and Christian Slater. It is based on the real story of code talkers from the Navajo nation during World War II. The film was theatrically released...
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  • Four Sacred Mountains of the Navajo are the four mountains along the boundaries of the Navajo Nation. According to Navajo belief, each mountain is assigned...
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  • Joe Kieyoomia (category Navajo military personnel)
    him decode messages in the "Navajo Code" used by the United States Marine Corps, but although Kieyoomia understood Navajo, the messages sounded like nonsense...
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    Under Major Howard Connor, 5th Marine Division signal officer, six Navajo code talkers worked around the clock during the first two days of the battle...
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    Carl Nelson Gorman (category Navajo code talkers)
    Carl Nelson Gorman (1907–1998), also known as Kin-Ya-Onny-Beyeh, was a Navajo code talker, visual artist, painter, illustrator, and professor. He was faculty...
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    Chester Nez (category Navajo code talkers)
    original Navajo code talker who served in the United States Marine Corps during the war. Nez was born in Chi Chil Tah, New Mexico, to the Navajo Dibéłizhiní...
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    Window Rock, Arizona (category Pages with Navajo IPA)
    community is named after. The Navajo Nation Museum, the Navajo Nation Zoological and Botanical Park, and the Navajo Nation Code Talkers World War II memorial...
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    during summertime nights, art crawls, and small museums, including a Navajo code talk museum. Gallup commissioned a number of murals highlighting local...
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  • Navajo music is music made by the Navajos, mostly hailing from the Four Corners region of the Southwestern United States and the territory of the Navajo...
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    capacities from 1902 until 1946. He is best known for his support of the Navajo code talker program. Clayton Vogel was born on September 18, 1882, in Philadelphia...
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  • Chester; Schiess Avila, Judith (2011). Code Talker: The First and Only Memoir By One of the Original Navajo Code Talkers of WWII. Dutton Caliber. ISBN 978-0425244234...
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    Peoria, and the Arizona portion of the Navajo Nation. The numbering plan area was created in a split of area code 520 on June 23, 2001, due mainly to population...
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  • Robert W. Young (category Navajo code talkers)
    he worked on the Navajo Code Talker project. They developed a code based on the Navajo language for high-level communications. Navajo-speaking soldiers...
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  • 10 September 2021. Neuman, Scott (4 June 2014). "Last Of The Original Navajo 'Code Talkers' Dies At 93". KNAU Arizona Public Radio. Retrieved 10 September...
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  • John Brown Jr. (December 24, 1921 – May 20, 2009) was an American Navajo Code Talker during World War II. John Brown Jr. was born on December 24, 1921...
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  • Assistant Secretary of the Navy John Brown Jr. (Navajo code talker) (1921–2009), American Navajo code talker during World War II John M. Brown III (fl...
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  • name (help) CNN (July 26, 2001). "President Bush Honors World War II Navajo Code Talkers Receiving Congressional Gold Medal". CNN Live Event/Special....
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  • (b. 1930) Willie Murphy, blues musician (b. 1943) Alfred K. Newman, Navajo Code talker (b. 1924) Francis W. Nye, Major General in the U.S. Air Force...
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    uses the linear predictive coding algorithm LPC-10 at 2.4 kilobits/second. The name is most likely a reference to the Navajo code talkers of World War II...
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