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    Navajo‚ the Code Talkers The Navajo code talkers took part in every assault the U.S. Marines conducted in the Pacific on Guadalcanal‚ Tarawa‚ Peleiu‚ and Iwo Jima from 1942 to 1945. They served in all six Marine divisions‚ Marine parachute units and Marine Raider battalions‚ transmitting important messages by radio and telephone in their native language—a code that the Japanese never broke during the war. Philip Johnston‚ a former missionary’s son who once lived on the Navajo Reservation was

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    Gender Roles in Navajo and Hopi Culture In Navajo mythology the most important figure is that of Changing Woman‚ who gave birth to the twin heroes who contributed much of what the Navajo consider to be their special culture. In daily life the important social units are those centering around a core of women—mother‚ daughter‚ sisters‚ and their sons and daughters. Affinal relatives‚ those who are relatives by marriage‚ play an important but peripheral role. Women are privy to religious and magical

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    Navajo Code Talkers: helping the United States Some of you may not know about the Navajo Code Talkers‚ so I’m going to tell you a little bit about them. The Code Talkers are arguably the most important part of the U.S.’s army during World War II. For starters‚ the Code Talkers weren’t white men. They were actually indians who lived normal lives. The Code Talkers weren’t all Navajos. There also were the Cherokee and Choctaw indians too. Things were going bad for the United States. Pearl Harbor

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    Discoverer.prod.sirs.com. Web. 3-15-13 Rosenberg. “Navajo Code Talkers”. History.1900s.about.com. Web. 3-19-13. “Navajo Code Talkers: WWII Fact Sheet”. History.navy.mil/faqs/faq61-2.htm. Web. 3-15-13 Newman. “Navajo Code”. Discoverer.prod.sirs.com. Web. 3-15-13. Navajo Code Talkers Austin Allen March 27th‚ 2013 Austin Allen March 27th‚ 2013 Despite their people being slaughtered and lack of recognition from the government‚ Navajo code talkers still aided the United States in a

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    Navajo Indians were enlisted to convey top secret communications for the U.S. Marines after the Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. Known as Navajo Code Talkers‚ these young men created an oral cryptogram the enemy was unable to decipher‚ fulfilling a vital role during World War II and saving an innumerable amount lives. For the American Armed Forces‚ communications‚ which had always been a multifarious issue‚ had now become a bewildering burden. Japanese cryptographers were proving

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    work and sacred ceremonies and that’s exactly what is happening to the Navajo people or Dine as they call themselves. This conflict has arisen because certain artists have been using the visual imagery of traditional Navajo sand paintings and the magery taken from them as subject matter that is being woven into rugs and artwork that is being sold for profit. This has resulted in a heated debate that has literally split the Navajo people into two separate groups‚ those that don’t mind the use of sand

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    The Long walk Mariah Martinez The Long Walk of the Navajo‚ or also known as the Long Walk to Bosque Redondo which was a deportation of the Navajo people from their reservations in 1864 from what is today’s Arizona and New Mexico by the United Stated Government to be forced walk to Bosque Redondo. The Navajos were aggressively moved from place to place at gunpoint from the United States soldiers and even their homes were being raided leaving behind cattle‚ land‚ and their personal belongings . Threw

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    THE NAVAJO WATER CRISIS By Chris Treat Indigenous History in the US Since 1900 HIST 4023 Farina King 4/28/17 The Navajo have been faced with a water crisis and have been suffering with very little news coverage when compared to Flint‚ Michigan. Both cases are very unfortunate yet it seems that Flint‚ Michigan has received more coverage and even that is starting to die down without being resolved similar to the Navajo case. The Navajo case can be broken down in terms of time‚ conditions‚ and

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    true unsung heroes of the War were the Navajo Code Talkers. They used their language as a code‚ making their code unbreakable to the Axis powers‚ and their ability to decode faster than any other. Those who we

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    “Without the senses there would be no religion‚ for religion is founded on a relation between embodied beings and the world around them.” (IRS‚ 69) The senses help us construct and allow us to partake in the world’s religions. The faiths of the world are deeply fixed in the customs of culture and connect to the human experience. Aesthetics is important to religion‚ they are firm in our human sensory experience‚ it is the way human bodies sense their religious worlds‚ especially through sight‚ sound

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