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coyote threat to sheep

Crawford, Eugene (code talker)

Crawford, Gene

creation of the world

Crosby, Bing

“cruiser”
(lo-tso-yazzie)

cruisers

“cultural freedom” for Indians

cultural heritage (erasing), boarding school

Curley, David (code talker)

“Curse of the Bambino,”

D, “deer”
(be)

daisy cutters

Damon, Lowell (code talker)

Darwin, Australia

declassification of Navajo code

Dennison, George (code talker)

Depression (Great), U.S.

“destroyer”
(ca-lo)

destroyers

development of Navajo code.
See
code talkers (Navajo code), development

dictionary of Navajo Code Talkers

Diné
(“the People”)

dive-bombers

Dixon, James (code talker)

“docs” (corpsmen)

“Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree,”

“do or die,”

Durrett, Deanne

dust bowl in Great Plains

“earth”
(nahasdzáán)

East
(ha'a'aah)

Empire of the Rising Sun

See also
Japan

Empress Augusta Bay

Enemy Way ceremony

“English” all the time, boarding school

Father (Chester's father)

boarding school

code talker declassification

hogan, building Grandmother's

homecoming (Chester's)

Korean War and

sheepherding

Sleeping Rock people

stories (great)

sweat lodge

Fels-Naptha soap

“fighter plane”
(da-he-tih-hi)

First Man and First Woman

First Marine Division

Guadalcanal

New Caledonia

Peleliu

R&R for

See also
Begay, Roy (code talker); Marines (U.S.); Nez, Chester (code talker)

flame throwers

Fletcher (Admiral)

Fletcher-class destroyers

Flores, David (Major)

Florida Islands

Fort Defiance School, Arizona

Fort Sumner, New Mexico

Fort Wingate, New Mexico

“49-er” party

Fox tribe

French dislike of Marines

friendly fire death of Harry Tsosie

fry bread

Fryer, E. Reeseman

Galloping Horse

Gallup, New Mexico

Gallup's Catholic Hospital

Gallup School, New Mexico

Geiger, Roy (General)

Germany

ghosts
(chindí)

GI Bill

Gifu Ridge

girl babies as highly valued

“glittering fourth world,”

goats as best friends

Golden Gloves tournament

Good Life (Right Way)

Good Way ceremony

Goon (Japanese translator)

Gorman, Carl (code talker)

Gorman, Zonnie

government employees (“Washing-done”)

Grable, Betty

Grande Terre

Grandmother (Chester's grandmother)

boarding school and

clans and marriage advice

Great Livestock Massacre

herd, building

hogan, building

homecoming (Chester's)

sheepherding

stories (great)

Grants, New Mexico

Gray, Charlie

Gray, Johnny

Gray, Raymond

Great Depression (U.S.)

Great Livestock Massacre

Great Plains dust bowl

grid system, field-testing

Guadalcanal

Austen, Mount

Banzai (suicide attackers)

Battle of Bloody Ridge

Battle of Guadalcanal

Battle of Savo Island

Bougainville training

burying bodies with tractors

capture strategy

casualties

crabs and crocodiles at

dog tags

dysentery

fear of soldiers

first battlefield use of Navajo code

food

foot problems

foxholes

friendly fire, avoiding

Gifu Ridge

“jungle rot,”

landing

malaria

Melanesian population of

“Midnight Charlie,”

mosquitoes

night attacks by Japanese

radios (TBX radios)

Slot, The (“Ironbottom Sound”)

South Pacific voyage to

sunbathing Marines

“Tokyo Night Express, The,”

training for Guam

training for Iwo Jima

typhus

“walking fire in,”

Guam

Gutierrez, Benny and Sally

Haile, Father Berard

Halsey, “Bull” (Admiral)

“hand grenade”
(nimasi)

hand grenades

hand-to-hand combat

hand-trembler

Harvard

Haskell Indian Nations University, Kansas

Haskie, Ross (code talker)

Hataathlii, Ned

Hawaii

Hawthorne, Roy (code talker)

“hearing” Navajo

Hellzapoppin Ridge

helmets, uses of

Henderson, Lofton R. (Major)

Henderson Field

Higgins boats

high explosive (HE) warheads

Hirohito (Emperor of Japan)

Hiroshima, Japan

Hisey, Henry, Jr.

hitting corporal incident

hogan, building Grandmother's

Holcomb, Thomas (Commandant)

Holy People

Holy Way ceremony

homecoming (Chester's)

home memories

Honoring the Navajo Code Talkers Act

Hoover Dam project

Hopi Indians

howitzers

humor of Navajos

“hunger,”

Hunt (Lieutenant)

Hunter's Point, Arizona

Hyakutake, H. (General)

Ichiki, Kiyono (Colonel)

“I do not like”
(doo shil yá' át' ééh da)

“I Love You for Sentimental Reasons,”

Ilthma, Oscar (code talker)

Indian Reorganization Act

Inoue, Sadae (Lieutenant General)

“Ironbottom Sound” (Slot, The)

Italy

“I've Got Sixpence,”

“I will return” (MacArthur)

Iwo Jima

“jackass”
(tkele-cho-gi)

“January”
(yas-nil-tes)

Japan

American vs. Japanese soldiers

atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Banzai (suicide attackers)

blue-white artillery tracers of

bombing of Tokyo

Bushido code (no surrender)

codes cracked by

code talkers mistaken for Japanese

dishonor of soldiers' families

divine right to rule world

earthquake of 1923,

expansion of

14th Division

HakkoX ichiu
(manifest destiny)

invasion of China

learning about Navajo code

“Midnight Charlie,”

“missing,”

Naval masters

night attacks by

176th Army

Pearl Harbor attack by

prisoners of war (POWs), Japanese

“scalp” for Bad Way ceremony

Shinto religion

snipers

South Pacific dominance by

surrender of

tanks

“Tokyo Night Express, The,”

Tokyo Rose

unbreakable Navajo code, learning about

underground systems built by

World War I and

wounded, abandoning

Yamato race

Zeros

See also
casualties; code talkers (Navajo code); Guadalcanal; World War II

“Japan”
(beh-na-ali-tsosie)

Japan, Sea of

Johnston, Philip

Jolson, Al

Jones, Buck

Jones, James E. (Colonel)

“June”
(be-ne-eh-eh-jah-tso)

June, Allen Dale (code talker)

junipers

Ka-bar knives

Kawaguchi (Major General)

Kieyoomia, Joe

“kindness”
(hozoji)

King, Jimmie (code talker)

kitchen duty

Kluckhorn, Clyde

Korean War

Kotb, Hoda

kunai grass

Laguna people

land craft, vehicle and personnel (LCVPs)

landing ship, tank (LSTs)

landing vehicles, tracked (LVTs)

“Land of the Rising Sun,”

See also
Japan

land vs. ship positions

Larry King Weekend
(TV show)

Lawrence, Kansas

Leighton, Dorothea

Leonard, Alfred (code talker)

Leonardo da Vinci

Lew Wallace Elementary School, New Mexico

“light”
('adinídíín)

“light complexion”
(Betoli)

See also
Nez, Chester (childhood and youth)

lightning bolts as weapons

“little man”
(Hachi Yázha)

“little mother”
(Shimá Yázhí)

Livestock Massacre, Great

Lockard, G. R.

Long Walk

Louis, Joe (“Brown Bomber”)

MacArthur, Douglas (General)

Mack, Ted

mail call

Malay Peninsula

manifest destiny
(HakkoX ichiu)

Manual of Navajo Grammar, A
(Haile)

Manuelito, John (code talker)

Mariana Islands

Marine Corps
Chevron

Marine Corps Recruitment Center in San Diego

Marines (U.S.)

abandoning ship drills

age requirements of

basic training

cadence, counting

camaraderie

close-order drills

code talkers and

communications school

cultural vs. physical challenges

dropping out

equipment issued to

food during basic training

German Shepherds and

“getting tough” test

hand-to-hand combat

heads shaved

hitting corporal incident

“jar-heads,”

Marine Corps MOS (Military Occupational Specialty)

marksmanship of

night-landing practice

obstacle course

Platoon 382,

points system for going home

prayers encouraged by

recruits

segregation of soldiers

shouting

survival training

swimming

trust in Navajos

uniforms

women in

Marines (
cont.
)

See also
Begay, Roy (code talker); casualties; code talkers (Navajo code); First Marine Division; Guadalcanal; Nez, Chester (code talker); Second Marine Division; Third Marine Division; Tsinajnnie, Francis (code talker)

Massacre, Great Livestock

matriarchal society, Navajos

matrons, boarding school

McCabe, William (code talker)

McClain, Sally

McDonald, Peter

medicine bags

medicines used in sweat lodge

“medicine” vs. “mouth,”

Melbourne, Australia

Merrill (Admiral)

MGM Studios

Michelangelo

“Midnight Charlie,”

military terms and Navajo code

milking ewes and goats

“million-dollar” wounds

Mix, Tom

Model T Ford truck

monkeys

monsters roaming the earth

Morgan, Jake

Morse code

mortars

mosquitoes

Nagasaki, Japan

Nakagawa, Kunio (Colonel)

naming livestock

Nanking, China

narratives.
See
stories (great)

National Park Service

Native Americans

alcohol not served to Indians

citizenship of U.S. and

identification card required for

petroglyphs

vote, right to

World War I, using languages

See also
Navajo culture; Navajo language

Navajo, The
(Kluckhorn and Leighton)

Navajo Code Talkers
(Aaseng)

Navajo Code Talkers Dictionary

Navajo culture

allegiance declaration by Navajo Tribal Council

“allotments,”

all things should be respected

animals vs. money

ash, importance of

bears as relatives

boy babies

burials

clan affiliations

clothing of

community sense

compass points and

corn pollen, importance of

dead, avoiding

Diné
(“the People”)

discipline

dry (sand) paintings

east-facing doorway

education program promises to

evil people as coyotes