The Native American Code Japan Could Never Break In WWII – And Why The Men Behind It Were Ordered To Stay Silent
It is also a reminder of what did not survive — the languages and cultures of Native nations that were more thoroughly suppressed, the speakers who were broken by the punishments they received, the children who came home from boarding schools unable to speak to their grandparents in the language of their families.
Not every language survived well enough to serve as a military code.
The Navajo language did.
Many others did not.
The Code Talker story should be told in a way that honors what the Diné kept alive without obscuring what others lost.
The final word on the Navajo Code Talkers has not been written.
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