{"id":26115,"date":"2022-07-12T12:37:20","date_gmt":"2022-07-12T16:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indianz.com\/News\/?p=26115"},"modified":"2022-07-12T16:07:44","modified_gmt":"2022-07-12T20:07:44","slug":"navajo-code-talkers-museum-prepares-for-special-celebration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2022\/07\/12\/navajo-code-talkers-museum-prepares-for-special-celebration\/","title":{"rendered":"Navajo Code Talkers Museum prepares for special celebration"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/p>\r\nA long-awaited celebration is taking place on National Navajo Code Talkers Day<\/a> this year.\r\n

<\/p>\r\nOn August 14, the Navajo Code Talkers Museum will finally break ground on a permanent facility. The 400-acre site in Tse Bonito, New Mexico, will be used to honor the Navajo Code Talkers who used the Dine language<\/a> to help the United States and its allies achieve victory in World War II.\r\n

<\/p>\r\n\u201cSince our inception, we have been actively planning and strategizing for the fulfillment of that mission. Our vision statement: Educating the world about the official Navajo language code, and the culture of the brave men chosen to create it, to advance the victory in the Pacific Theater in WWII,\u201d said Regan Hawthorne<\/a>, a member of the museum board and a veteran of the U.S. Army.\r\n

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A National Navajo Code Talkers Day in Window Rock, Arizona, the capital of the Navajo Nation. Photo by Sgt. Melissa Marnell, Office of the Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps \/ U.S. Marine Corps<\/a><\/figcaption>\r\n

<\/p>\r\nOver 400 Navajo citizens took part in the once-classified Code Talker project<\/a>. They served in the U.S. Marine Corps in the Pacific theater, during a crucial portion of the world war.\r\n

<\/p>\r\nBy using the Dine language, the Navajo Code Talkers were able to transmit, receive and decode messages that were never broken by enemy forces<\/a>.\r\n

<\/P>\r\n\u201cOn August 14, we’ll be celebrating the 80th anniversary,” said Peter MacDonald, a Code Talker and former leader of the Navajo Nation. “The establishment of the esteemed, unbreakable and unforgettable Navajo Code, that saved lives and helped win the war in the Pacific.”\r\n

<\/P>\r\nMacDonald, who is in his 90s, is part of a rare class. Of the 400-plus Navajo citizens who served as Code Talkers, only four are still alive, according to the board of the Navajo Code Talkers Museum, a non-profit incorporated in the state of Arizona.\r\n

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