The last of the Navajo “Code Talkers,” who helped the United States create a code that thwarted Japanese efforts during World War II, has passed away. Chester Nez of Albuquerque, New Mexico, died ...

CODE TALKER: The First and Only Memoir by One of the Original Navajo Code Talkers of WWII, by Chester Nez with Judith Schiess Avila (Berkley, 320 pages, $26.95) You don t need to be a fan of World War ...

Although more than 400 Navajos served in the military during World War II as top-secret code talkers, even those fighting shoulder to shoulder with them were not told of their covert function. And, ...

Following in her family's footsteps towards a career in service, the great-granddaughter of a Code Talker plans to investigate unsolved crimes on the Navajo Nation.

NMAIMAI copy Purchased from the NMAI Library Endowment. Summary "As a boy, Chester Nez was taught his native language and culture were useless, but he was later called on to use his Navajo language to ...

ALBUQUERQUE — As a young boy in the 1920s, Chester Nez was punished for speaking in his native Navajo language, his mouth washed out with soap by the administrators of the government boarding school ...