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The Navajo Indian Tribe's Code In World War Two

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Many people do not know the importance of the Navajo Indian tribe’s code in World War 2. People don’t understand many things about what made the Navajo people so special and impactful. Not only do people not know what makes this Navajo code so important, they don’t even know who they are, or how the very famous Navajo Indian code was devised. The Navajo code talkers were Native Americans part of the Navajo Indian tribe during World War 2. Previously to World War 2 they were forced by the united states American government to only speak English and go to Americanized schools in an attempt to convert them in to society. The Navajo language was banned so it was never once written which made the language even more rare; because of the language …show more content…

Especially in the battle in the pacific between the United States Navy (allies power) and the Japanese Navy (axis powers), because the Japanese military was very good at de coding messages. If the Japanese could intercept the United States Naval’s messages then the Japanese would be always one step ahead of the United States as they would know what the United states is planning before it happens. Although the Marines are the ones that trained the Navajo American Indians in coding and decoding messages the United States Navy relied on its use even more, not to say that other branches such as the United States Army did not use it as well because they did. An example of a message that needed to be relayed on to others would be “Tkin-Gloe-lh-A-Kha …show more content…

In fact, people didn’t even know about the existence of this program until congress awarded the Navajo American Indians involved in developing, decoding, and coding messages many years later in 2000, which is about fifty nine years later from when the project began. The United States, however, did not do this until after the French government honored the people that made up the code used by the French military forces, and many people believe this is because of the irony it would cause as for many years the United States forbade the speaking of a language that would later prove crucial to their success in the second world

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For instance, the code was based on the Navajo language and this was the languages used to create the code, therefore the code was hard to comprehend. This was hard to figure out because the Navajo language was unwritten back then. The author states, “After basic training in 1942, Nez's platoon was tasked with developing a code, based on the then-unwritten Navajo language.” This proves that the fact that it was in the Navajo language was one of the things that made the code hard to crack. To conclude, there are several reasons the code was hard to crack and the Navajo language was one of

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Code Talker by Joseph Bruchac is a book centered around the Navajo Indians in WWII. The Navajos were forced to live on reservations, their only option to further their education and broaden their opportunities were to leave the tribe or to join the military. Caucasian Americans at the time were very stereotypical towards the Navajos, they believed they were drunk, uneducated, wild savages. Caucasian Americans were guilty of only hearing a single story of how their ancestors took the land from the Indians who weren't deserving of it. Non Indians believed they rightfully used the land and saved it from wild savages destroying the land.

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The armies began to patrol though the Navajo lands in 1859-1860 which made the tension increase. Chief Manuelito began to feel intimidated so he ordered his people to harass the armies. The US Army decided to get back at the Navajos by attacking them but their raid was unsuccessful. Instead, the raid infuriated the Navajo. In the article Navajo Long Walk to Bosque Redondo-1864 by William H. Wroth, he states that, “James L. Collins, Superintendent of Indian Affairs in New Mexico in his 1860 annual report called for an end to the futile campaign and recommended that the Army create a reservation for the Navajo as the best way to control them.”

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The military believed that the complex language of the Navajo would confound their enemies in the east. Prior to this the Americans used the choctaw language during the first world war which worked wonders against the Germans.

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They had each English letter an animal that it would be referred to as. The code talker would then tell the different animals in Navajo to spell out words that their enemies couldn’t figure out (Capstone, N.D.). He made a long lasting positive impact because he helped lead the United States and their allied nations to victory during WWII. Chester was part of the code talker team for the United States and allied nations. Many Navajos volunteered to join the Marines, but only 29 were chosen.

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This was the Japanese home turf, and if the Allies could not send a message without it being interpreted, they would not be able to win the war. ​The Navajo​ ​code​ ​talkers of WWII aided the Allied forces in the Pacific Theatre of the war, by developing an uncrackable code. Chester Nez is a Navajo American Indian. His grandparents’ livestock were all brutally killed by the United States in order to make the Navajo tribe more reliant on the government for welfare. He was sent to boarding school as a kid, where it was forbidden to speak Navajo.

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