![]() ![]() Ned survived boarding school and chose to go on to high school. ![]() At the school, however, Ned was treated poorly by white people who misunderstood the importance of the Navajo language and culture to these children and tried to convince them that everything they had ever known was wrong. ![]() Ned's uncle fought for Ned to go to this school because he believed it was important for Navajo to know English in order to avoid conflict based on miscommunication with the white man. Ned begins his story with the day his uncle took him to a white man's boarding school where he was to learn English. Ned Begay has gathered his grandchildren around and begins to tell them the story of how he earned a number of medals during World War II. Code Talker is a novel that is based in true history about American heroes who are all too often overlooked. Ned quickly chose to join up and play his part. However, when World War II broke out, Ned learned that the government was recruiting Navajo men to use their language as a code the enemy could not decipher. Throughout his childhood Ned was told by the white man that using his sacred language was wrong. The grandfather, Ned Begay, was born on Navajo land, but attended a boarding school in order to learn English. ![]() In this novel, a man is telling his grandchildren how he came to receive several medals for his service in World War II. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two is a novel by Joseph Bruchac. ![]()
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