WEST VALLEY CITY — As Americans celebrate Independence Day, a new monument in West Valley City is quietly taking shape — one that honors a group of Native American heroes whose contributions were once ...

Navajo Code Talkers and their family members met with Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff U.S. Marine Corps Gen. Peter Pace at the Pentagon, Aug. 10, 2007. Photo by U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. D.

WASHINGTON − When the southern Cheyenne tribe of Oklahoma holds ceremonies and dances, a song to honor veterans and the raising of an American flag comes first. A medicine man performs a purification ...

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — The El Pueblo Motor Inn, or what’s left of it anyway, sits vacant behind a chain-link fence along Route 66, its stucco walls clad in weathered sheets of construction tarp. At first ...

WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. (FOX 5/KUSI) — A group of Young Marines from Camp Pendleton joined youth and adult volunteers from across the nation earlier this month in a powerful tribute to one of World War ...

PHOENIX — Navajos who served as code talkers in World War II urged lawmakers on Monday to pass legislation honoring them. But a Hopi tribal leader sparked debate by saying the Navajos weren't the only ...

Joe Palmer, one of the last of the original Navajo Code Talkers from World War II, is dead at 84. Palmer died Nov. 18 at the VA Medical Center in Tucson, according to his family. As a Marine in World ...