Drake, 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: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books 2005
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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