Native American Code Talkers: A Lasting Legacy
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- National Museum of the American Indian
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- Video Title
- Native American Code Talkers: A Lasting Legacy
- Description
- During World War I and World War II, American Indians made a unique contribution to the U.S. Armed Forces by using their tribal languages in secret battle communications. Join us via zoom as author and anthropologist/historian William C. Meadows of Missouri State University reveals how these Native American “code talkers” played a key role in important battles and campaigns—and helped save many American and allied lives. Following Meadows’s talk, Alexandra Harris, senior editor at the museum and co-author of “Why We Serve: Native Americans in the United States Armed Forces,” will host a Q&A with attendees. Image: Diné [Navajo] code talkers Corporal Henry Bahe Jr. and Private First Class George H. Kirk. Bougainville, South Pacific, December 1943. National Archives photo no. 127-MN69889-B
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- 1 hr 6 min 21 sec
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- Native American Indian Museum Smithsonian "Indigenous Peoples" "Smithsonian Institution" "Smithsonian NMAI" "National Museum of the American Indian"
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- Education
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- Native Americans;American Indians
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