Code Talker (36 page)

 

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.

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.

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

 

 

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.

 

 

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)

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