Assimilation In Code Talkers

Assimilation is the process of adapting or adjusting to the culture of a group or nation, or the state of being. It also is the state or condition of being assimilated, or of being absorbed into something. An example of will be, assimilation of immigrants into American life. Assimilation connects a lot to the novel because Kii Yazhi has to adapt to the ways of Americans when he goes to boarding school and has to act like them. In the novel Code Talkers the author Bruchac perfectly shows and explains assimilation. The novel Code Talker is about a navajo who is sent to boarding school and is stripped of his culture and language. As he finishes some of his school years at boarding school he signs up to be a marines and while he’s a marine they

During boot camp Kii and other Navajos are now in the marines and are being trained to be “code talkers” in their Navajo language.Before Kii and the others can be code talkers they have to go through training, and “One purpose [for] boot camp is to take young men who are out of shape and make them physically fit”(Bruchac 61) so they can be 100% ready to fight. The code talkers have to be physically fit first because they have to be able to take on anything and have a straight focused mind before they learn the code and fight at the same time. In boarding school Kii Yazhi learns how to accept his language and to gain confidence in his navajo culture. They are proud to be Navajos because they “[use their] code [in wars, and they] could send battlefield messages that no one but another Navajo code talker could understand”(Bruchac 73). After Kii Yazhi and his Navajo friends accept their language they are now always comfortable to speak Navajo even when there with all white people in the marines.They do not feel like they are judging someone when they speak it and even the whites feel comfortable with them speaking it because they know that they are doing it to help them not to talk about