Hello Everyone,
This week my grades 3-5 students have been discussing the importance of Navajo code talkers during World War II using portions of Navajo Code Talkers by Andrew Santella that I found online. I make a PowerPoint presntation, which students took turns reading to the class of the information Santella presents.
A Navajo code talker named Chester Nez later recalled how the code came to be. “We were told to use our language to come up with words representing each letter, from A to Z,” he explained. “And they also told us to come up with code words for military terms.”
Did you know that the code grew to include about 600 words by the end of the war?