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Santella, Andrew. 2004.
We the People: Navajo Code Talkers.
Minneapolis: Compass Point Books. A brief accounting of the code talkers with many good photos.
 
Sledge, E. B. 1981.
With the Old Breed.
New York: Presidio Press. A great first-person account of the in-the-trenches fighting on Peleliu and Okinawa.
 
Steinberg, Rafael, and the Editors of Time-Life Books. 1978.
Island Fighting, World War II.
Alexandria, Va.: Time-Life Books. The war in the Pacific. Great synopses of individual battles.
 
van der Vat, Dan. 1991.
The Pacific Campaign, World War II, The U.S.-Japanese Naval War 1941–1945.
New York: Simon & Schuster. World War II Naval details.
 
Wall, Leon, and William Morgan. 2007.
Navajo-English Dictionary.
New York: Hippocrene Books. Also used this book for spelling Navajo words.
 
Ward, Geoffrey C., and Ken Burns. 2007.
The War: An Intimate History, 1941–1945.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Personal stories from soldiers and great photographs.
 
Waters, Frank. 1950.
Masked Gods, Navajo and Pueblo Ceremonialism.
Chicago: The Swallow Press. Lots of great history, beliefs, ceremonies.
NOVELS/STORIES
Alexie, Sherman. 2000.
The Toughest Indian in the World.
New York: Atlantic Monthly Press. Riveting collection of short stories (not Navajo).
 
Bruchac, Joseph. 2005.
Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two.
New York: Penguin Group. Historical novel with good detail about Navajo life and WWII. York: Penguin Group. Historical novel with good detail about Navajo life and WWII.
 
La Farge, Oliver. 1937.
The Enemy Gods.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. Interesting descriptions of Navajo customs.
 
La Farge, Oliver. 1929.
Laughing Boy, A Navajo Love Story.
New York: Mariner Books, Houghton Mifflin Company. Winner of Pulitzer Prize in 1930.
MEDIA
Websites
AcePilots.com
World War II ships
 
Archives.gov
The National Archives
 
Armchairgeneral.com
Battles in the HBO miniseries The Pacific
 
Blount web.com
World War II time line
 
DestroyersOnline.com
The destroyers
 
Historylearningsite.co.uk
History learning site
 
History.Navy.mil
U.S. government website for Naval history and heritage (Navajo code)
 
Historyplace.com
World War II in the Pacific
 
Ibiblio.org/hyperwar
War and tactics
 
LOC.gov
Library of Congress
 
Marines.mil
: Official home of the United States Marine Corps
 
Military.Discovery.com
Military channel website with videos
 
Militaryhistoryonline.com
Webzine of military articles
 
Navy.mil
Official website of the United States Navy
 
NebraskaStudies.org
Website offering historical photos, documents, letters, maps, more
 
NPS.com
National Park Service
 
Olive-drab.com
Military information
 
Pwencycl.kgbudge.com
The Pacific war online encyclopedia
 
SantaFeNewMexican.com
Santa Fe newspaper
 
Tecom.usmc.mil
U.S. government website for Marine history and museums
 
Thinkquest.org
Oracle ThinkQuest Education Foundation
 
USGovInfo.about.com
U.S. government information
 
USMC.mil
U.S. Marine Corps
 
USMC.mil/unit/2ndmardiv
2d Marine Division
 
ww2gyrene.org
World War II Gyrene, dedicated to the U.S. Marine 1941–1945
 
www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu
Educational website
 
 
Magazines and Newspapers
Survey Graphic: Magazine of Social Interpretation 23:6
(June 1934), p. 261.
Chevron,
the Marine Corps newspaper in San Diego, May 16, 1942, and July 4, 1942.
 
 
Films
500 Nations
, a Jack Leustig film, Warner Home Video, 1995.
Band of Brothers,
a Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg film, Home Box Office Miniseries, 2002.
 
Guadalcanal Diary,
a Lewis Seiler film, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, 1943.
 
The Pacific,
a Tom Hanks, Steven Spielberg, and Gary Goetzman film, Home Box Office Miniseries, 2010.
 
The War,
a Ken Burns film, PBS Home Video, 2007.
INDEX
Page numbers followed by “n” indicate notes.
Aaseng, Nathan
Adams, Robert
“air”
(nitXch'l)
Air Force (U.S.)
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Allied forces
See also
United States of America
“all service” base
alphabet and Navajo code
“always faithful”
(semper fi)
America.
See
United States of America
“Among the Oak Trees”
(Chichiltah)
Amphibious Corps, Pacific Fleet
Angaur
Apache tribe
Apra Harbor
“April”
(tah-chill)
A “red ant”
(wol-la-chee)
Arizona
“Arizona” tag
Army (U.S.)
arroyo baths
arthritis
atabrine
“auntie”
(Shimá Yázhí)
Austen, Mount
Australia
Axis powers
See also
Japan
B, “bear”
(shush)
Bad Way ceremony
Baker, Davey
Baltimore-class cruisers
Banzai (suicide attackers)
Bataan Death March
Battle of Bloody Ridge
Battle of Empress Augusta Bay
Battle of Guadalcanal
See also
Guadalcanal
Battle of Midway
Battle of Savo Island
Battle of the Coral Sea
Battle of the Java Sea
“battleship
” (lo-tso)
battleships
“bazookas”
(ah-zhol)
“beer,”
beer, military issued
Begay, Charlie (code talker)
Begay, Jack
Begay, Roy (code talker)
Angaur
Chester worrying about
Begay, (
cont.
)
Guadalcanal
Marine recruit
Navajo code development
New Caledonia
Peleliu
Begay, Samuel (code talker)
Begay, Thomas (code talker)
Beijing, China
Benally, John (code talker)
Benny, Jack (code talker)
Betoli
See also
Nez, Chester (childhood and youth)
Bingaman, Jeff
Biníshiit Baa. See
Nez, Dora (Chester's sister)
Bitsie, Wilsie (code talker)
Black Sheep clan
(Dibé-lizhiní
or
DibétXizhiní)
“Bloody Nose Ridge” (Umurbrogol Mountain)
boarding school
alter boys
babysitting by older schoolmates
beds at
“big harvest” and
birth dates
bullies
Catholicism and
Checkerboard vs. boarding school
church attendance
classes
cowboy dreams
cultural heritage, erasing
dormitories
“English” all the time
“English” names assigned
food at
forbidden areas
“fried bread” helmets
girls (speaking to), prohibited
graduating from
haircuts
hockey
humiliation of students
kindergarten
lice treatment
marbles
matrons
nightmares at
punishments
religion
runaways
teeth brushing with soap
trading post at
uniforms
“bomb”
(a-ye-shi)
Bonis (Japanese airfield)
Bosque Redondo
Boston Red Sox
bottle feeding lambs and kids
Bougainville
bows and arrows
Brown, Cosey (code talker)
Brown, John (code talker)
Brown, John, Jr. (code talker)
Budweiser
Buin (Japanese airfield)
Buka (Japanese airfield)
bullies, boarding school
Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA)
Burma
Bush, George W. (President)
Bushido code (no surrender)
C, “cat”
(moasi)
camaraderie of code talkers
Camp Elliott, California
Camp Pendleton, San Diego
cans from field rations used as alarms
Canyon people
Cape Esperance
Cape Torokina
Capital Rotunda
card playing
Carlson, Evans (Lieutenant Colonel)
Carlson's Raiders
Carson, Kit
Cassidy, Hopalong
casualties
Bougainville
code talkers (Navajo code)
Guadalcanal
Guam
Iwo Jima
Peleliu
Catron, Ethel Pearl (Chester's wife)
cedar
celebrity, Chester as a
Chamorro natives
Changing Woman
Charley, Yolanda Jane
Checkerboard, New Mexico
Chee, John (code talker)
Cherokee tribe
Chiang Kai-shek
Chichiltah
(“Among the Oak Trees”)
“Chief,”
China
Choctaw tribe
Christmases
civil servant incident
clans, Navajos
Cleveland, Benjamin (code talker)
Clinton, Bill (President)
Coast Guard (U.S.)
“coastwatchers,”
code black
code talkers (Navajo code)
alcohol problems of some
bodyguards assigned to
camaraderie
casualties
“Chief,”
Congressional Gold Medals
Congressional Silver Medals
declassification of code
errors in messages, handling
exhibit, Pentagon, Washington, D.C.
friendly fire death of Harry Tsosie
heroes, code talkers as
honored by Nixon
Honoring the Navajo Code Talkers Act
Japan learning about
jobs, difficulty in finding
Marines and
Navajo Code Talkers Dictionary
pairs, working in
POWs and
promotion protocol for
recruits (new)
R&R for
success of
tagged messages
training new recruits
transmitting, moving
undocumented code talkers
uniforms
walking code machines
See also
Begay, Roy (code talker); Marines (U.S.); Navajo language; Nez, Chester (code talker); radios (TBX radios); Tsinajnnie, Francis (code talker); World War II;
specific code talkers
code talkers (Navajo code), development
accuracy of code
alphabet and
dictionary of Navajo Code Talkers
double encryption
expansion of code
Japanese mistaken for
Johnston, Philip and
memorization of code
military men, assigned to help
military terms and
months of year and
officers and
one-letter-one-word pattern
“original” code talkers
personalities of
phonetic English spelling
pilot project
practicing code
printing vs. script
code talkers (
cont.
)
secrecy of
Shackle code vs.
testing code
unbreakable code
Cole, Nat King
Collier, John
Comanche tribe
combat fatigue
coming-of-age ceremony
“commando,”
Commission of Indian Affairs
community sense of Navajos
Como, Perry
condition black
condition yellow
Congressional Gold Medals
Congressional Silver Medals
Connor, Howard (Major)
cookhouses
Cooper, Gary
cornmeal mush
corn pollen and Navajos
Corn Pollen people
corpsmen (“docs”)
Cousins, Bob
Coyote the trickster

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