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In 2008, the Code Talkers Recognition Act revealed that speakers of several Native American languages besides Navajo had served as code talkers. Among them were five Tlingit men: Richard Bean Sr. of Hoonah, Robert "Jeff" David Sr. of Haines, brothers Mark Jacobs Jr. and Harvey Jacobs of Sitka, and George Lewis Jr. of Sitka.
A code talker was a person employed by the military during wartime to use a ... The memory of five deceased Tlingit code talkers was honored by the Alaska legislature ...
The Tlingit or Lingít ( English: / ˈtlɪŋkɪt, ˈklɪŋkɪt / ⓘ TLING-kit, KLING-kit) are Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast of North America and constitute two of the two-hundred thirty-one (231, as of 2022) [3] federally recognized Tribes of Alaska. [4] Although the majority, about 14,000 [citation needed] people, are ...
Kenji Kawano has been photographing the Navajo code talkers, America's secret weapon during WWII, for 50 years. It all started in 1975 with a chance encounter that would take over his life.
Charles Joyce Chibitty (November 20, 1921 – July 20, 2005) was a Native American and United States Army code talker in World War II, who helped transmit coded messages in the Comanche (Nʉmʉnʉʉ) language on the battlefield as a radio operator in the European Theater of the war. In 2013, Native American Code Talkers of World War I and II ...
The Choctaw code talkers were a group of Choctaw Indians from Oklahoma who pioneered the use of Native American languages as military code during World War I . The government of the Choctaw Nation maintains that the men were the first American native code talkers ever to serve in the US military. They were conferred the Texas Medal of Valor in ...
The Tlingit clans of Southeast Alaska, in the United States, are one of the Indigenous cultures within Alaska. The Tlingit people also live in the Northwest Interior of British Columbia, Canada, and in the southern Yukon Territory. There are two main Tlingit lineages or moieties within Alaska, which are subdivided into a number of clans and houses.
The Tlingit language (English: / ˈ k l ɪ ŋ k ɪ t / ⓘ KLING-kit; Lingít Athapascan pronunciation: [ɬɪ̀nkɪ́tʰ]) is spoken by the Tlingit people of Southeast Alaska and Western Canada and is a branch of the Na-Dene language family.