Thomas H. Begay and the Navajo Code Talkers children " --Louise Erdrich

" --Louise Erdrich

The year is 1870

the magical with the real

An analysis of how religious bias shaped U

and unspeakable loss

Thomas H. Begay and the Navajo Code Talkers children " --Louise ErdrichThomas H. Begay was one of the young Navajo men who, during World War II, invented and used a secret, unbreakable communications code based on their native Din language to help win the war in the Pacific. Although the book includes anecdotes from other code talkers, its central narrative revolves around Begay. It tells his story, from his birth near the Navajo reservation, his childhood spent herding sheep, his adolescence in federally mandated