TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bruchac,Joseph
TI  - Code talker: a novel about the Navajo Marines of World War Two 
SN  - 0142405965
PY  - 2006///, c2005
CY  - New York
PB  - Speak
KW  - United States
KW  - Marine Corps
KW  - Participation, Indian
KW  - Juvenile fiction
KW  - Navajo language
KW  - Cryptography
KW  - Navajo Indians
KW  - Indians of North America
KW  - Southwest, New
KW  - World War, 1939-1945
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-227); Sent away -- Boarding school -- To be forgotten -- Progress -- High school -- Sneak attack -- Navajos wanted -- New recruits -- Blessingway -- Boot camp -- Code school -- Learning the code -- Shipping out to Hawaii -- Enemies -- Field maneuvers -- Bombardment -- First landing -- On Bougainville -- Do you have a Navajo? -- Next targets -- Guam -- Fatigue -- Pavavu -- Iwo Jima -- In sight of Suribachi -- Black beach -- Okinawa -- Bomb -- Going home -- Author's note -- Selected bibliography -- Acknowledgments
N2  - 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
ER  -