Chester Nez and the unbreakable code
Subtitle: a Navajo code talker's story
By: Joseph Bruchac, pictures by Liz Amini-Holmes
Contributors: Amini-Holmes, Liz, ill
Publisher: Albert Whitman
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Chicago, IL
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780807500071
Subjects: Cryptography; Navajo Indians; Navajo code talkers; Indian Participation; American Personal narratives; World War, 1939-1945; Marines; Biography
Other titles: Navajo code talker's story
Description: As a young Navajo boy, Chester Nez had to leave the reservation and attend boarding school, where he was taught that his native language and culture were useless. But Chester refused to give up his heritage. Years later, during World War II, Chester and other Navajo men like him was recruited by the US Marines to use the Navajo language to create an unbreakable military code. Suddenly the language he had been told to forget was needed to fight a war.
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