Keeping the Code
Chevron land donated for Code Talker museum

Chevron Mining Company President Frederick Nelson and Navajo Code Talker Keith Little sign a land transfer deed on Friday east of Window Rock. Chevron transferred over 200 acres of land to the Code Talker Association to build a museum. — © 2009 Gallup Independent / Brian Leddy

Copyright © 2009
Gallup Independent
By Karen Francis
Diné Bureau

WINDOW ROCK — As Peter MacDonald spoke a few words in the Diné language Friday morning, the words were recognizable to many who were gather there, but for the men who served as Code Talkers in the U.S. Marines during World War II, the words meant much more.

Those words were part of a code that was never broken by the enemy during World War II. That code, and the men who knew the code, helped put an end to the war.

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