Robert W. Young, 94, a linguist whose collaboration with a Navajo tribesman resulted in dictionaries of the native language, died Feb. 20 in Albuquerque. The cause of death was not reported. Young is ...
Contains: (1) Letter of transmittal from Thomas to Gibbs forwarding his Yuma vocabulary and Whipple's Navajo vocabulary, dated March 5, 1868, Louisville, Kentucky. (2) Yuma vocabulary obtained by ...
To his peers in Shiprock, New Mexico, he was known as “the detective.” As a kid, he was always asking questions, wondering how things worked and why. “That’s probably where (my love of science) ...
JT Willie (J.T. Willie), Diné (Navajo). “Dine Bizaad yee Nidaazbaa'igii: A Tribute to Our Navajo Code Talkers.” 2015. Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian. In WWI, Choctaw and other ...
During World War II, Navajo members of the Marine Corps used a code based on their native language to allow platoons to communicate without Japanese intelligence agents being able to decipher what ...
MacDonald, who joined the Marines at the age of 15 by lying about his age, was part of a group of roughly 420 Navajo code ...
In honor of Native American Heritage Month, a local company gave employees a rare opportunity to hear firsthand from one of ...
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