The book is not a difficult read, although some of its content reflects the horror that is war. In fact, Native Americans have always served in greater proportion to their populations than any other ethnic group. Yet in spite of the treatment, the Indian Nations have received, they have remained loyal citizens of the nation that oppresses them. Native Americans had been the victims of genocidal racism since America’s earliest days, and that same racism continues even today. What makes the work of the code talkers so remarkable, however, was the context in which it was used. The unbreakable nature of the native languages used by the American Indians who served as code talkers allowed messages to be communicated at the moment of need rather than after hours of being translated into and then out of codes. Code talkers used variations of their own native languages to convey urgent and top-secret messages from one combat unit to another without fear of being decoded or translated. Marine in their invasions of various islands in the Pacific in WW II. Even now, 75 years after this weapon was deployed, it is so powerful and so eloquent that it could easily be deployed again just as effectively as it was when used in WW II,Īuthor Joseph Bruchac was a Navajo Code Talker himself. Instead, it is a simple and straightforward telling of the story of one of America’s most important secret weapons, Indian Code Talkers. Code Talkers is not a book of eloquent literary writing.
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