Navajo Code Talkers
Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Navajo Code Talkers Exhibit Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1041-BC
Abstract
Collection comprises materials from the Circle of Light Navajo Educational Project’s traveling exhibit entitled “Our Fathers, Our Grandfathers, Our Heroes; the Navajo Code Talkers of World War II”.
Dates:
ca. 2001-2011
Sally McClain Collection of Navajo Code Talker Interviews
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1106-BC
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of audio interviews conducted with nine Navajo Code Talkers (and the widow of Jimmy Gleason) by author Sally McClain as part of the research for her book Navajo Weapon, published in 1994. The original sixteen audio cassette tapes have been reformatted to CDs for researcher use.
Dates:
1990 - 1992
William Dean Wilson Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1085-BC
Abstract
William Dean Wilson was a Navajo Code Talker in World War II. The William Dean Wilson Collection contains papers; photographs and negatives; correspondence; pay stubs; government memoranda, circulars, and pamphlets; newspaper clippings; magazines; handwritten notes; military postcards; photographs, negatives, and slides; powwow dance regalia; Navajo dance regalia; rattles; cassette tapes; memorabilia; and military related pins and medals. The photographs include his early childhood, World War...
Dates:
1923 - 1999