Written with students in mind to give them the opportunity to use and enjoy the Navajo language. It is a first-year Navajo language textbook which emphasizes the skills for a communicative approach to language learning. Each of the 30 chapters has a cultural or practical theme. Vocabulary and grammar are introduced and practiced within this context.
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.