After being taught in a boarding school run by whites that Navajo is a useless language, Ned Begay and other Navajo men are recruited by the Marines to become Code Talkers, sending messages during World War II in their native tongue.
"Amidst a complicated history of mistreatment by and distrust of the American government, the Navajo people--especially bilingual code talkers--helped the Allies win World War II"--
Describes the role of a select group of Navajo Marines who developed a code based on their own native language that provided a means for secure communications among American forces in the Pacific during World War II.
Meets with a group of Navajo Marine Corps veterans who developed a secret code during World War II that was never broken and that was based on the unwritten Navajo language.
Relates the stories of the young Navajo men recruited from harsh government boarding schools into the Marines during World War II to work as Code Talkers from 1942-1945.