Weso, 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 WESSummary: 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 NAVSummary: "There has been a great deal of writing the past several decades about Native American Code Talkers of World War Two. The published works have been about Navajos and the tremendous contribution they made in the Pacific campaigns of the war. What is often overlooked is the role played in both World Wars by men of other tribes. There were Cherokee, Choctaw, Comanche, Creek and other tribal...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Reycraft Books 2019
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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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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC BRUMcClain, 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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Summary: Explaining a solar eclipse, a Navajo tells his grandson that when the sun dies the children of Mother Earth are called from the four directions to repaint the universe in all the colors of the rainbow.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Salina Bookshelf 2001
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WHIHillerman, Anne
Summary: Sergeant Jim Chee's vacation to beautiful Antelope Canyon and Lake Powell has a deeper purpose. He's on a quest to unravel a sacred mystery his mentor, the Legendary Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn, stumbled across decades earlier. Chee's journey takes a deadly turn when, after a prayerful visit to the sacred Rainbow Bridge, he spots a body floating in the lake. The dead man, a Navajo with a passion...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M HILSummary: A battle-weary Marine is assigned to guard - and ultimately befriends - a young Navajo soldier who has been trained to be a code talker. This code, the Navajo code, and the men who knew the code, were to be guarded as they went into action. It was the unspoken duty of the Marine to kill the Navajo soldier before he could be taken prisoner of war by the Japanese. This is the one wartime code...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA WINCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie WindtalkersHillerman, Tony
Summary: After Sgt. Jim Chee discovers the body of a Navajo man with horribly flayed feet and hands, a number of apparently unrelated events leads him along a path of confusion. Was Chee being duped in a magician's elaborate sleight of hand?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HILBird, 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
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J973.0497 BIRYoung, Brian (Brian Lee)
Summary: "When Nathan goes to visit his grandma, Nali, at her mobile home on the Navajo reservation, he knows he's in for a summer with no running water and no electricity. That's okay, though. He loves spending time with Nali, and with his uncle Jet--though it's clear when Jet arrives that he brings his problems with him. One night, while lost in the nearby desert, Nathan finds something extraordinary....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC YOUBuckley, James
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 WHOBaker, Brynn.
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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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Turquoise Rose "plans to vacation in Europe for the summer with her roommate, but all that changes in a heartbeat when her grandmother falls sick. Turquoise is asked to care for her ailing grandma, and suddenly Turquoise must choose between Rome and the Reservation. A "Rez" summer seems dreadful to this Urban Native ..."--Holt Hamilton Productions website
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holt Hamilton Productions 2007
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TURPasternak, 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 PASEskeets, 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 ESKDwyer, 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 DWYAaseng, 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: 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.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2006
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD BRUSummary: Thomas and Tamara are track stars at their rural New Mexico high school. Like many teenagers, they are torn between the lure of brighter futures elsewhere and the ties that bind them to home. For these teens, however, 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. Take a moving look...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2012
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Summary: Lt. Joe Leaphorn & Jim Chee, two officers of the Navajo Tribal Police, investigate the disappearance of an anthropologist suspected of selling ancient Indian artifacts on the black market.
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Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Home Video 2005
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Summary: An unexpected death on a lonely road outside of Utah's Bears Ears National Park raises questions for Navajo Tribal Police officers Jim Chee and Bernadette Manuelito. Why would a seasoned outdoorsman and well-known paleontologist freeze to death within walking distance of his car? A second death brings more turmoil. Who is the unidentified man killed during a home invasion where nothing seems to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HILYoung, Brian
Summary: "When Nathan goes to visit his grandma, Nali, at her mobile summer home on the Navajo reservation, he knows he's in for a pretty uneventful summer, with no electricity or cell service. Still, he loves spending time with Nali and with his uncle Jet, though it's clear when Jet arrives that he brings his problems with him. One night, while lost in the nearby desert, Nathan finds someone...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Heartdrum, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC YOUCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC YOUVandever, Daniel W.
Summary: "Fall in Line, Holden! follows Holden, a young Navajo boy, through his day at boarding school. Although Holden is required to conform to a rigid schedule and strict standards of behavior, his internal life is led with imagination and wonder. Whether he is in art class, the computer lab, or walking the hall to lunch, Holden's vivid imagination transforms his commonplace surroundings into a world...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Salina Bookshelf, Inc. 2017