Code talker
Subtitle: a novel about the Navajo Marines of World War Two
By: Joseph Bruchac.
Publisher: Dial Books
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 231
Subjects: United States. Marine Corps -- Indian troops -- Fiction; Navajo language -- Fiction; Cryptography -- Fiction; Navajo code talkers -- Fiction; Navajo Indians -- Fiction; Indians of North America -- Southwest, New -- Fiction; World War, 1939-1945 -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-227).