Explore: Cherokee Code Talkers

first known use of code talkers was during World War I. Cherokee soldiers of the US 30th Infantry Division fluent in the Cherokee language were assigned

Windtalkers - A film depicting Navajo code talkers during the war Native Americans in the American Civil War Code talker Joseph Medicine Crow - was a World

Division code talkers and then participated in the latter stages of the Battle of Guadalcanal. After the USMC officially instituted the "talker" program

Albuquerque. In 2011, he wrote the memoir Code Talker: The First and Only Memoir by One of the Original Navajo Code Talkers of WWII with Judith Avila. On July

achievements of historically underrepresented groups, such as Navajo code talkers, Tuskegee Airmen, medal of honor winners, and women veterans. The changes

The Cherokee language was also used by code talkers in the 36th Division of the 142nd Infantry Regiment during World War I, in which Cherokee troops

partnership with Cherokee director, Valerie Red-Horse Mohl: True Whispers: The Story of the Navajo Code Talkers and Choctaw Code Talkers as well as Mankiller

and Okinawa as a Navajo code talker. The code talkers’ role in the war was not disclosed until 1968, when documents on the talkers were declassified. Willeto

Division during World War I. Comanche and Navajo code talkers are well known, but as many as 40 Cherokee men also used their native language for sensitive

2020-08-31. "He left his soles overseas" How Effective Was Navajo Code? "The Code Talkers". Archived from the original on 2008-01-15. Joe Lee Kieyoomia at