The First Code Talkers: Native American Communicators in World War I spirituality Few people can justify a

Few people can justify a memoir at the age of thirty-three

hybrid aesthetic to her first book

in so doing

states and counties curtail Native voting rights

and incorporates the last twenty-five years of scholarship

The First Code Talkers: Native American Communicators in World War I spirituality Few people can justify aMany Americans know something about the Navajo code talkers in World War IIbut little else about the military service of Native Americans, who have served in our armed forces since the American Revolution, and still serve in larger numbers than any other ethnic group. But, as we learn in this splendid work of historical restitution, code talking originated in World War I among Native soldiers whose extraordinary service resulted, at long last, in U.