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Cryptography Navajo code talkers Navajo Indians Navajo Indians Biography Navajo Indians Social life and customs Navajo language World War, 1939-1945 Cryptography World War, 1939-1945 Cryptography Juvenile literature World War, 1939-1945 Participation, Indian World War, 1939-1945 Participation, Indian Juvenile literatureWeso, T. F. Pecore (Thomas F. Pecore)
Summary: "Native Americans have a long tradition of storytelling. Now, you can easily introduce your children to these rich cultures with a compilation of powerful tales from multiple tribes like the Cheyenne and the Lenape. What sets this book apart from other Native American books for kids: Tales from 12 tribes--Kids will embark on a literary adventure with 12 stories from tribes around America,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rockridge Press 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.2 WESCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J398.2 WESDwyer, Helen.
Summary: A discussion of the history, culture, and contemporary life of the Navajo Indians.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gareth Stevens Pub. 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 970.3 DWYMcClain, S. (Sally)
Summary: Based on first-person accounts and Marine Corps documents, and featuring the original code dictionary, Navajo Weapon tells how the code talkers created a unique code within a code, served their country in combat, and saved American lives.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rio Nuevo Publishers 2001
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Place a hold to request this item.Eskeets, Edison
Summary: "The Navajo tribe, the Diné, are the largest tribe in the United States and live across the American Southwest. But over a century ago, they were nearly wiped out by the Long Walk, a forced removal of most of the Diné people to a military-controlled reservation in New Mexico. The summer of 2018 marked the 150th anniversary of the Navajos' return to their homelands. One Navajo family and their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of New Mexico Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 979.1004 ESKPasternak, Judy
Summary: "Yellow Dirt offers readers a window into a dark chapter of modern history that still reverberates today. From the 1940s into the early twenty-first century, the United States knowingly used and discarded an entire tribe for the sake of atomic bombs. Secretly, during the days of the Manhattan Project and then in a frenzy during the Cold War, the government bought up all the uranium that could...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 979.1004 PASSummary: The documentary provides viewers with highly personal insights from a group of Native American war heroes regarding their service on behalf of the United States and the Navajo Nation. The secret code these marines developed, based on the unwritten Navaho language, was never broken, giving American troops an upper hand in many battles that ultimately led to Japan's surrender in 1945.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC NAVBird, F. A.
Summary: "This book introduces young readers to the Navajo people, their traditional ways of life, including social structure, homes, food, art, clothing and more, their contact with Europeans, and how the Navajo are keeping their culture alive today"--Publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Checkerboard Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.0497 BIRCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.0497 BIRCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J973.0497 BIRAaseng, Nathan.
Summary: Describes how the American military in World War II used a group of Navajo Indians to create an indecipherable code based on their native language.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walker 1992
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Summary: "Discusses the heroic actions and experiences of the Navajo code talkers and the impact they made during times of war and conflict"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, a Capstone imprint 2016
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Summary: "By the time the United States joined the Second World War in 1941, the fight against Nazi and Axis powers had already been under way for two years. In order to win the war and protect its soldiers, the US Marines recruited twenty-nine Navajo men to create a secret code that could be used to send military messages quickly and safely across battlefields. Author James Buckley Jr. explains how...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.54 BUCCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J900 WHOSummary: Examines the role of two-spirit people in the Navajo culture in the context of the story of a gay youth named Fred Martinez. Martinez was a nádleehí or a male-bodied person with a feminine essence, who was murdered in a hate crime at the age of sixteen. Discusses the traditional Native American perspective on gender and sexuality and the need for a balanced interrelationship between the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riding the Tiger Productions, LLC 2010
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2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC TWO1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF TWO
Bighorse, Tiana
Summary: Gus Bighorse's account of Navajo history as told to his daughter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Arizona Press 1990
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BIG HORSE TIANA BIGSummary: For academic and athletic teens Thomas and Tamara, home is an impoverished town on the Navajo reservation, and leaving means separating from family, tradition and the land that has been theirs for generations. Erica Scharf's documentary shows one year in the lives of two gifted kids who must not only become young adults, but also learn how to be both modern and Native. A PBS POV (Point of View)...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PBS 2012
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC UP1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF UP
Summary: It follows the Navajo heavy metal band I Don't Konform's remarkable journey from performing on poverty-stricken reservations to recording their debut album with Grammy-award winner producer of Metallica while telling the compelling story of the thriving heavy metal scene on the Navajo reservations.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC REZCohlene, Terri
Summary: A retelling of a Navajo Indian legend in which Turquoise Boy searches for something that will make the Navajo people's lives easier. Includes a brief history of the Navajo people and their customs.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Watermill Press 1990
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.2 COHDunlay, Thomas W.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Nebraska Press 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CARSON, KIT DUNSonneborn, Liz.
Summary: Hundred of years ago, the ancestors of the Navajos settled in the deserts and canyons of the American Southwest. In this homeland, the Navajo people built a society supported by livestock herding and enriched by treasured spiritual and cultural customs. In the 1800s and early 1900s, while settlement threatened their homes, their flocks, and their way of life but the Navajos remained a strong...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lerner Publications Co. 2007
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 970.3 SONAllen, Carter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Carter Allen 2003
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 970.3 ALLBurbank, Danielle C.
Summary: "Learn all about the talented Navajo code talkers during World War II with this fun-filled nonfiction reader--carefully leveled to help children progress . . . 'Navajo Code Talkers' will introduce kids to the Navajo code talkers sending top-secret messages in code based on their native languages during World War II . . . and is a motivating introduction to using essential nonfiction reading...
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Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2024
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE BURNez, Chester.
Summary: A retired Marine and Navajo Indian describes his experiences as one of twenty-nine top-secret code talkers during World War II and how his life growing up on the Checkerboard Area of the Navajo Reservation prepared him for his service.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Media, Inc. 2011
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD 940.54 NEZ, CHESTER NezKawano, Kenji
Summary: During World War II, as the Japanese were breaking American codes as quickly as they could be devised, a small group of Navajo Indian Marines provided their country with its only totally secure cryptogram. Recruited from the vast reaches of the Navajo Reservation in Arizona and New Mexico, from solitary and traditional lives, the young Navajo men who made up the code talkers were present at...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Northland Pub. Co. 1990
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Summary: "As a boy, Chester Nez was taught his native language and culture were useless, but he was later called on to use his Navajo language to help create an unbreakable military code during WWII"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Albert Whitman & Company 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 NEZCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 NEZDrake, Kinsale
Summary: "The Sky Was Once a Dark Blanket traverses the Southwest landscape, exploring intricate relationships between Native peoples and natural world, land, family, pop culture, music, and multigenerational representations. Oscillating between ancestral influences, the repercussions of ethnomusicology, and the present/past/future, this collection defies and re-rights what it means to be Indigenous,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The University of Georgia Press 2024
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Summary: A retelling of the Navaho legend that explains the patterns of the stars in the sky.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 1992