Primary Source Spotlight: Indigenous Code Talkers
Code Talkers Recognition Act of 2008. Pub. L. 110–420, Oct. 15, 2008, 122 Stat. 4774 , recognizing Native American code talkers
Recognized the contributions of code talkers from thirteen other Native American nations: Assiniboine, Chippewa and Oneida, Choctaw, Comanche, Cree, Crow, Hopi, Kiowa, Menominee, Mississauga, Muscogee, Sac and Fox, and Sioux
Choctaw Code Talkers Recognition Act 2006
Meskwaki Code Talkers Recognition Act 2005
Honoring the Choctaw and Comanche Code Talkers Act 2002
Honoring the Navajo Code Talkers Act 2000
More federal legislation related to Native Code Talkers
Navajo Code Talkers: A Guide to First-Person Narratives in the Veterans History Project
Navajo Code Talkers oral histories
World War II Navajo Code Talker Reunion Videos 2004
Photos related to Navajo Code Talkers
Code Talkers historical newspaper articles
Library blog posts & articles
- Navajo Code Talkers Library of Congress Magazine
- Navajo Code Talkers Day In Custodia Legis
- Memoriam for a Code Talker: Joe Hosteen Kellwood Folklife Today
- The Power of Words, the Power of Belonging: What the Navajo Code Talkers Taught Me Folklife Today
- World War II’s Navajo Code Talkers, In Their Own Words Timeless Stories from the Library
Resources outside the Library
- Native Words, Native Warriors Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian online exhibit
- Semper Fidelis, Code Talkers Prologue Magazine
- Code Talkers The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture
- Comanche Code Talkers Comanche National Museum
- Cree Code Talkers The Canadian Encyclopedia
- Navajo Code Talkers in World War II Marine Corps History Division
- Navajo Code Talkers Dictionary Navy Department Library
- Navajo Code Talkers Foundation
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