WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. — John Kinsel Sr., one of the last remaining Navajo Code Talkers who transmitted messages during World War ...

On Saturday, Navajo National President Buu Nygren announced that Navajo Nation Code Talker John Kinsel Sr. passed away at age ...

These men were the first of the Navajo Code Talkers. However, according to a Facebook post by the Southern Navajo Nation News, it was on this day, 78 years ago that they swore the oath of enlistment.

President Ronald Reagan designated August 14 National Navajo Code Talkers Day in honor of the American Indians who joined the Marine Corps in World War II and lent their language to the crypto ...

Image caption, 3/7: The first group of Code Talkers was dispatched to the Pacific. Two of the group remained in the US to recruit and train other Navajo. Over the course of the war, around 400 ...

Native Americans also enlisted in large numbers, with some 45,000 serving in the armed forces, a figure equal to more than ten percent of the Indian population at the time. Navajo “Code Talkers ...