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Native warriors have used their languages to help the United States win wars from the Revolutionary War onward. The first who were known as a code-talking unit were the Choctaw Code Talkers in World War I. Scholars have identified a score of other code-talking groups in wars of the 1900s, including Cherokee, Cheyenne, Chippewa, Comanche, Dakota, Hopi, Kiowa, Lakota, Menominee, Muscogee, Oneida, Osage, Pawnee, Sac & Fox, Seminole and Yankton Sioux.
More than 17 tribes in all made immeasurable contributions to the war effort as code talkers. These include Cheyenne, Comanche, Cherokee, Choctaw, Osage, Yankton Sioux, Chippewa, Creek, Hopi, Kiowa, Menominee, Muscogee-Seminole, Navajo, Oneida, Pawnee, Sac and Fox, and the Sioux, from both the Lakota and Dakota dialects.
The Native American languages saved untold lives during times of war. What is ironic is the fact that it was done during a time when children were beaten for using their Native American language. Indeed these very men that risked their lives to save the lives of others by using their language, were beaten themselves as children for using their language in Indian boarding schools. English Only????????
Last of the Meskwaki code talker.
Frank
Sanache, was one of 27 Meskwaki to enlist in the Army in 1941. He became one of
eight Meskwaki code talkers. They used their language against the Germans in North Africa.
As a code talker, he would be sent out far beyond the battalion to use a walkie-talkie to direct artillery fire in the desert. "It was the worst place this side of hell," said Sanache.
Sanache was one of 27 Meskwaki, then 16% of Iowa's Meskwaki population, to enlist in the Army in1941, nearly a year before Pearl Harbor. Eight of the group — Sanache, his brother Willard, Dewey Youngbear, Edward Benson, Judy Wayne Wabaunasee, Mike Wayne Wabaunasee, Dewey Roberts and Mike Twin — became code talkers.
The Meskwaki were among 17 tribes that had code talkers during the war. The Navajos, who sent up to 420 men, are perhaps the best known. The codes was never broken.
The Meskwaki men served in the 168th Infantry, 34th Division in North Africa. Most of the time his duties required him to be 1 or 2 miles out in front of his unit.
Sanache was captured by the Germans in Tunisia. He searved out the rest of the war in Poland.
You can read more..............http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2002/07/06/codetalkers.htm
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Comanche Code Talkers:
After induction into the army, seventeen Comanche men were selected for the Signal
Corps because of their unique language. The Comanche Signal Corp included Charles Chibitty, Haddon Codynah, Robert Holder, Forrest Kassanavoid, Wellington Mihecoby, Edward Nahquaddy, Perry Noyabad, Clifford Otitovo, Simmons Parker, Melvin Permansu, Elhin Red Elk, Roderick Red Elk, Larry Saupitty, Morris (Sunrise) Tabbyetchy, Tony Tabbytite, Ralph Wahnee, and Willie Yackeschi.
Trained in all phases of communication, these members of the army's Fourth Signal Division used the Comanche language to relay important messages that could not be understood or decoded by the enemy.
Charles Chihitty and Earnest Childers,
Native American Medal of Honor winner.
During World War II. The Comanche phrase posah-tai-vo meaning "crazy white man" was used for Adolph Hitler. Since the Comanches had a word for airplane but not for bomber, the Code Talkers came up with the comanche phrase for "pregnant airplane."
Along with the 16 other Comanche Indians, Charles Chibitty was part of the Army's 4th Signal Company, also known as the Code Talkers. Like the Choctaws of World War I, and the Navajos in the Pacific Theater, the Comanche Code Talkers used their native language to prevent the enemies of the European Theater from intercepting messages of the allied troops during World War II. The unit was instrumental during the Normandy invasion.