Chester Nez and the Unbreakable Code: A Navajo Code Talker's Story | 
“By the end of the war, more than 400 Navajos had served as code talkers. They had been told in school that their language was no good, but they had proven that wasn't true. The Navajo code helped win World War II.“
“By the end of the war, more than 400 Navajos had served as code talkers. They had been told in school that their language was no good, but they had proven that wasn't true. The Navajo code helped win World War II.“
At the end of the book, there is an Author's note about Chester Nez' life! He wrote a memoir called Code Talker: The First and Only Memoir by One of the Original Navajo Code Talkers of WWII.
pickA book about a Navajo boy named Betoli, who was forced to take the English name “Chester“ at a residential school. Chester and other Navajo people were able to cleverly create and use a code using the Navajo language that enemy nations could not decipher. Chester Nez was a real “code-talker“ who helped win WWII! It talks about the abuses/trauma Chester faced at the residential schools as well.
I got to meet Joseph Bruchac when he came to speak to my 4th graders in Buffalo, NY. He signed my daughter‘s copy of How Chipmunk Got His Stripes :)
