As a young Navajo boy, Chester Nez had to leave the reservation and attend boarding school, where he was taught that his native language and culture were useless. But Chester refused to give up his heritage. Years later, during World War II, Chester and other Navajo men like him was recruited by the US Marines to use the Navajo language to create an unbreakable military code. Suddenly the language he had been told to forget was needed to fight a war.
- ISBN10 0807500070
- ISBN13 9780807500071
- Publish Date 3 April 2018
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 25 July 2024
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Albert Whitman & Company
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 32
- Language English