Most of the USMC code talkers employed were of of the Navajo tribe. When a Navajo code talker received a message to be decrypted, he would relay the message to the Navajo code talker on the other end by translating the English words into pre-defined code words. For example, the word ...
We would start with Betatakin. Theresa and I piled into my little car and followed Park Ranger Anna Gray’s jeep down a dirt road to the trailhead. Gray, a member of the Navajo tribe, launched into stories as we hiked. Along the way she pointed out indigenous plants such as scarlet pe...
Many donors also noted the particular generosity of the Choctaw's original gift given its timing: Not long before, those in the tribe were violently and forcibly relocated from their homeland by the U.S. government in a deadly march now known, alongside others, as the Trail of Tears. You ...
former Chairman of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe explain the significance of casinos in his own community. They provided a certain number of jobs, he told us. That was it. No miracle. No disaster. Just a steady livelihood for a certain number of people. That was his experience with Indian...
Through the Navajos' textiles, you can follow the historical course of an adaptable and resourceful tribe of the Southwestern high desert. You can trace the impact of their interactions with neighboring Pueblos, Spanish colonists, Mexican settlers and American expansionists and traders. You can see...
coming several months after the plan was originally slated to be completed. The document includes EPA’s plan for assessing and cleaning up 230 of 523 abandoned uranium mines on or near the Native American tribe’s land, relying on funding from a combination of enforcement actions and settlements...
Ann and Earl Morris knew almost 100 years ago. In the movie, Ann and Earl’s Navajo assistants are portrayed by Diné actors speaking Navajo with English subtitles. “Normally,” says Tsosie, “filmmakers don’t care which tribe Native American actors belong to, or what language they speak...
Neither the tribe nor the IHS mounted the educational campaign urged by Payne. Navajos who were drinking from the pits or watering their animals there had no reason to stop. Now retired and living in Maine, Payne says the government’s inaction still bothers him. ...
It’s been a hot topic ever since Zah, the tribe’s president, proposed last month that, as a matter of tribal pride, the Navajo Nation should be renamed Dineh Nation. But in this dusty, sun-baked settlement of 2,500 near the eastern edge of the reservation, Zah’s plan is playing...
Good times were had at my old apartment near the beach in Palm Bay, Florida. I had this slender little 26yo native stripper chick respond to one of my video girl ads and she happened to have a black boyfriend who wanted to tag along for the shoot. I encouraged him to join in the ...