Thomas H. Begay and the Navajo Code Talkers children The year is 1870

The year is 1870

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Thomas H. Begay and the Navajo Code Talkers children The year is 1870Thomas H. Begay was one of the young Navajo men who, during World War II, invented and used a secret, unbreakable communications code based on their native Din language to help win the war in the Pacific. Although the book includes anecdotes from other code talkers, its central narrative revolves around Begay. It tells his story, from his birth near the Navajo reservation, his childhood spent herding sheep, his adolescence in federally mandated