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Developed by the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian and the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service with generous support from Elizabeth Hunter Solomon, the Smithsonian Women’s Committee, and the AMB Foundation Forbidden to speak their Native languages in school, they later used them to win the war. A remarkable story of Indian soldiers who used their Native languages in service to the U.S. military Top: Navajo code talkers, 1943, National Archives Bottom: Code talker Paul Edward Tso Sr. (Navajo), 1988, photo by Kenji Kawano

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Page 1: Forbidden to speak their Native languages in school, they ......Forbidden to speak their Native languages in school, they later used them to win the war. A remarkable story of Indian

Developed by the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian and the

Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service with generous support from Elizabeth Hunter Solomon,

the Smithsonian Women’s Committee,and the AMB Foundation

Forbidden to speak their Native languages in school, they later used them to win the war.

A remarkable story of Indian soldiers who used theirNative languages in service to the U.S. military

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DOD's Office of Diversity Management and Equal Opportunity (ODMEO) is excited to share this display in the Pentagon for Native American Heritage Month. DATE: November 13 (after 1:00 p.m.) through November 15, 2013 (before 3:00 p.m.) LOCATION: 2nd floor, Apex 1-2
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