Carl Gorman Navajo Code Talker War photo [more material re Windtalkers film]

["Hunter Gray" <hunterbadbear@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Follow-up material on Windtalkers [Navajo Code Talkers] post:

Here is a link to a  War photo of our very good and long-time friend, the
late Carl Gorman  [Kin-yah-onny beyeh - "Son of Towering House People."]:
Navajo Code Talker.  It carries a kind personal inscription.  Following our
post earlier this evening on the Windtalkers film and Carl and related
matters, a young member of our family scanned this onto our website
http://www.hunterbear.org/Carl%20(Code%20Talker).htm

Also, here is an additional comment I posted on another list -- and also a
post made by a friend in New Mexico who has heard extensive and very
favorable Native American call-in comment on Windtalkers.

>From Hunterbear:

In World War I, several Choctaw and Comanche Indians successfully
transmitted orders via field telephones. The Germans could not break into
this.   And in World War II, in addition to the Code Talkers, there were
other instances where Native Americans in Africa, Sicily and in the South
Pacific communicated very effectively in their respective tribal
languages -- and these were not broken by the Axis foes.  Those tribes were
Comanche, Creek, Hopi, Choctaw, Menominee, and Chippewa [Ojibway.]

The Navajo situation was much larger [about 400 Code Talkers] and far, far
more carefully structured.  Based directly on the Navajo language -- the
essence of complexity -- a military / Navajo Code was very carefully worked
out which involved a vocabulary of 411 terms.  Every Code Talker had to
memorize this in entirety -- and also in such a fashion that he could
function lightning fast with this in combat.

It worked -- and it worked extremely well all the way through.

Again, I think Windtalkers is well worth seeing if you have the
pportunity.  -- Hunterbear

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>From Reber [New Mexico]:

I was skeptical, knowing [what] movies like this often are.
Then I heard Harlan McKosato's Native America
Calling.  McKosato suggested this skepticism as he introduced the hour
he devoted to it.  Native America called.  No skepticism was heard.  I'm
skeptical no longer.  People from all walks of Native life called.  This
movie is important, in a positive way.  Another thing these calls
revealed is the breadth of the code talker experience--a number of
tribes, mostly from the West it seemed, furnished code talkers.

- Reber



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