Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Aug. 14 is Navajo Code Talkers Day, a date President Ronald Reagan dedicated in 1982 to "all members of the Navaho Nation and to ...

Navajo Code Talker Thomas Begay salutes during the national anthem during a ceremony on Navajo Code Talkers Day, Friday, Aug. 14, 2026, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin) (AP Photo/Ross D.

The ceremonies honored the men who used a Native language the U.S. government once sought to repress to help win World War II.

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. One of the last Navajo World War II Code Talkers has died at the age of ...

Choctaw soldiers turned their native language into a secret military code that helped Allied forces during World War I.

A museum honoring Navajo Code Talkers is moving forward, but not without controversy. The state of New Mexico has allocated ...

CU Boulder celebrated the opening of Code Talker Hall on Aug. 12, marking the addition of a new 332-bed residence hall designed for non-first-year undergraduate students. The residence hall ...

WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. (Gray News) — The Navajo Nation is mourning the loss of one of their own, one of the last Navajo Code Talkers whose contributions were pivotal in World War II. KPHO reported that ...

PHOENIX (AP) — It’s been over eight decades since Thomas H. Begay, 101, and his fellow Navajo Code Talkers helped end World War II using the same language that he grew up speaking — at home and ...

WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. (AP) — John Kinsel Sr., one of the last remaining Navajo Code Talkers who transmitted messages during World War II based on the tribe’s native language, has died. He was 107. Navajo ...