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American tribal religions volume 8
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vi, 146 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
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English
26) A summer's trade
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 27 cm
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English
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Tony saves all his money to buy the beautiful saddle at the tradng post but when his grandmother becomes ill after pawning her valuable bracelet to help Tony's uncle, Tony is faced with a difficult decision.
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xvii, 107 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 23 cm
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English
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During World War II, as the Japanese were breaking American codes as quickly as they could be devised, a small group of Navajo Indian Marines provided their country with its only totally secure cryptogram. Recruited from the vast reaches of the Navajo Reservation in Arizona and New Mexico, from solitary and traditional lives, the young Navajo men who made up the code talkers were present at some of the Pacific Theatre?s bloodiest battles. They spoke...
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343 (large print) pages ; 23 cm.
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English
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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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108 pages : illustrations, map ; 20 cm.
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English
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"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 these brave and intelligent men developed their amazing code,...
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1 videodisc (60 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Explores from the Native point of view the complex story of the role that the Native American code talkers and the Navajo language played in secret communications during World War II. No cryptography system proved as effective during the war as did the use of Navajo code talkers using their tribal language to transmit military communiques. Countless American lives were saved because of the service of these brave young Native American Marines.
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1 videodisc (69 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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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 Japan₂s surrender in 1945.
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