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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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