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He is fluent in his Dine language and as a child is taken to a mission boarding school where priests and teachers try to make him over into an American youth who no longer retains his cultural heritage or language. The story begins as the narrator tells about his childhood on the Navajo Reservation.

Renowned Abenaki storyteller Joseph Bruchac weaves a quiet but engaging story where the Code Talker tells his grandchildren about the history of his wartime medal. Code Talker: A Novel About The Navajo Marines of World War Two is an historical novel about a Navajo man who endured boarding school (residential school) to become a United States Marine during World War 2.

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