Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Aug. 14 is Navajo Code Talkers Day, a date President Ronald Reagan dedicated in 1982 to "all members of the Navaho Nation and to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. John Kinsel: devised by a cohort of Navajo, the code substituted a Navajo word for each English alphabet letter and for common ...

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 ...

PHOENIX (AP) — The Pentagon restored some webpages highlighting the crucial wartime contributions of Navajo Code Talkers and other Native American veterans on Wednesday, days after tribes condemned ...

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. -- The language he once was punished for speaking in school became Chester Nez's primary weapon in World War II. Before hundreds of men from the Navajo Nation became Code Talkers, Nez ...

Last Wednesday, hundreds assembled in the small Arizona town of Window Rock to celebrate and honor the Navajo code talkers who helped the U.S. turn the tide in World War II. But the morning of the ...