NOW. OUR DRIVE RUNS THROUGH THE 21ST. AS WE KNOW, NAVAJO CODE TALKERS PLAYED A VITAL ROLE DURING WORLD WAR TWO. AND AS WE CELEBRATE NATIVE AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTH, SASHA LENNINGER EXPLAINS HOW THEY ...
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — The El Pueblo Motor Inn, or what’s left of it anyway, sits vacant behind a chain-link fence along Route 66, its stucco walls clad in weathered sheets of construction tarp. At first ...
Eighty years ago, as the sea swayed him from side to side on an attack vessel heading towards Iwo Jima, Thomas Begay started to feel afraid. “On the ship, they said: ‘get your last scrap of steak and ...
NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – From all across their homeland, hundreds of Native American men volunteered to become ‘Navajo Code Talkers.’ They were secret soldiers from the Navajo Nation in Arizona and New ...
During World War II, the U.S. Marine Corps used Navajo speakers to transmit fast, secure tactical messages across the Pacific ...
They played a pivotal role during World War II, and only two Navajo code talkers are still alive. Peter MacDonald Sr., 97, visited Albuquerque Thursday to speak with employees at PNM, highlighting the ...
The scene of the special tribute to the Code Talkers today was the annual intertribal Indian ceremonials for the parade this morning. The code talkers, more of them than have ever gathered together ...
NAVAJO NATION (KRQE) – This week, the Navajo Nation honored a group of Indigenous wartime heroes. Thursday was National Navajo Code Talkers Day, and hundreds gathered in Window Rock, Arizona, to honor ...