Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A statue of a Navajo Code Talker is proudly displayed at the Navajo Veterans Memorial Park in Window Rock, Ariz. (Photo/Navajo ...

WEST VALLEY CITY — As Americans celebrate Independence Day, a new monument in West Valley City is quietly taking shape — one that honors a group of Native American heroes whose contributions were once ...

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — The El Pueblo Motor Inn, or what’s left of it anyway, sits vacant behind a chain-link fence along Route 66, its stucco walls clad in weathered sheets of construction tarp. At first ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — A Navajo "code talker" who confounded Japanese troops during World War II by transmitting messages in his native language has died after a series of health problems, his son said ...

Peter MacDonald Sr., 96, said he felt relieved. As one of the two last living Navajo code talkers who sent indecipherable messages that helped the United States win World War II, he had been upset ...

Nuchi Nashoba grew up looking at a photograph of her great-grandfather Ben Carterby inside her grandmother’s Oklahoma home. But, she didn’t know much about the man in the frame other than that he was ...

WASHINGTON − When the southern Cheyenne tribe of Oklahoma holds ceremonies and dances, a song to honor veterans and the raising of an American flag comes first. A medicine man performs a purification ...

NOW. OUR DRIVE RUNS THROUGH THE 21ST. AS WE KNOW, NAVAJO CODE TALKERS PLAYED A VITAL ROLE DURING WORLD WAR TWO. AND AS WE CELEBRATE NATIVE AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTH, SASHA LENNINGER EXPLAINS HOW THEY ...

During World War II, the U.S. Marine Corps used Navajo speakers to transmit fast, secure tactical messages across the Pacific. Japanese intelligence broke many American codes, but it never broke the ...