The First Code Talkers: Native American Communicators in World War I short stories and two very special features:

and two very special features: twelve city guides

the loves and the losses that have brought the girls and their people to this moment

Drawing on oral history interviews

Velma Wallis depicts a landscape and way of life that are at once merciless and starkly beautiful

to build other kinds of beautiful lives

The First Code Talkers: Native American Communicators in World War I short stories and two very special features:Many Americans know something about the Navajo code talkers in World War IIbut little else about the military service of Native Americans, who have served in our armed forces since the American Revolution, and still serve in larger numbers than any other ethnic group. But, as we learn in this splendid work of historical restitution, code talking originated in World War I among Native soldiers whose extraordinary service resulted, at long last, in U.