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During World War II, Americans needed a code that could not be broken by the Japanese. Because of its complexity and the fact that the language remained unwritten, Navajo vocabulary was ideal to transmit messages across radio and telephone. "The U.S. Marine Corps enlisted 400 Navajos. Three hundred went into combat," recalled Samuel Tsosie. Tsosie, a Navajo from Tolani Lake, Ariz., a small town on the Navajo Indian reservation where he was born in May 1925, was one of the "Navajo talkers" who have been portrayed in movies....