Web Resources on Navajo Code Talkers

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Native Worlds, Native Warriors
National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution

http://www.nmai.si.edu/education/codetalkers/

This is an online exhibition about Code Talkers. It is divided into six sections: Native languages, code talking, survival, boarding schools, coming home, and recognition. Links to resources and lesson plans are also provided.

Teaching with Documents: Memorandum Regarding the Enlistment of Navajo Indians
U.S. National Archives and Records Administration

http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/code-talkers/

This site provides information on the U.S. Marine Corps Navajo Code Talker program, highlighting Maj. Gen. Clayton B. Vogel’s March 26, 1942, memo recommending the recruitment of Navajo men for the project.

Navajo Code Talkers’ Dictionary

http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq61-4.htm

This is the actual dictionary used by the military during WWII. It was declassified under Department of Defense directive 5200.9.

Navajo Code Talkers: World War II Fact Sheet

http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq61-2.htm

Prepared by the Navy & Marine Corps WWII Commemorative Committee

World War I And II: Choctaw Code Talkers

http://www.oklachahta.org/ (Click on Traditions, then scroll to Code Talkers link.)

Towards the end of WWI, fourteen Choctaw men in the US Army's Thirty-Sixth Division used their language to communicate military messages. The language functioned like a code and helped the American Expeditionary Force to win several key battles in France.

America’s CryptoKids, National Security Agency / Central Security Service

http://www.nsa.gov/kids

This entire website is devoted to codes and ciphers, how to make them, their history, and characters to play games with using the information—plus links for students and parents.

KUAZ Podcast on Code Talkers

http://radio.azpm.org/azspotlight/podcasts/2009/7/17/azspotlight-navajo-code-talkers/

Arizona Public Media's Mark McLemore talks with Zonnie Gorman, coordinator of the exhibition and daughter of Navajo Code Talker Carl Gorman.

KUAT Video on Code Talkers

http://tv.azpm.org/kuat/video-segment/2009/7/28/kuat-navajo-code-talkers/

Arizona Illustrated produced a segment based on the exhibition, aired July 28, 2009.

Podcast Interview with a Hero's Daughter

http://www.statemuseum.arizona.edu/podcasts/ep034_gorman--zonnie.shtml

Zonnie Gorman, the daughter of Carl Gorman who was one of the original 29 Navajo Code Talkers, talks about the Code Talkers' important heritage of bravery within both the Navajo Nation and the United States.

Podcast originally produced by UA News. Interview by Jeff Harrison.