He was part of the second group of Marines trained as code talkers at Camp Elliott, Calif., after the original 29 who ...

One of the last remaining Navajo Code Talkers who transmitted messages during World War II using the tribe's native language ...

a Navajo Code Talker during World War II, died of stomach cancer that she attributes to fallout from nuclear tests that settled over their hometown in Arizona. Much of her family has suffered from ...

Jack Thurman, a veteran of World War II who landed on the beaches of ... He was close friends with Navajo “code talker” Ira Hayes, who was featured in the famous photograph of U.S. troops ...

With only three code talkers remaining ... to leave home as young men and sign up with the military during World War II because they wanted to protect Dinétah and Diné.

Sponsor Message Billiman's father, a Navajo Code Talker in World War II and a downwinder, died from stomach cancer. She was part of a group that made a similar trip to Capitol Hill earlier this year.

The Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA), the quarter-century old law that compensates Americans sickened by U.S. nuclear testing, expired this summer, but two Native American women are ...

Billiman, meanwhile, is the daughter of a World War II-era Navajo Code Talker who died of stomach cancer she attributes to the aftereffects of nuclear fallout from testing in the area. Being ...