A Navajo boy named Ned Begay is sent to a white man's school when he is six years old. At the school he is forbidden to speak the Navajo language, and he is taught the ways of white men. When Ned is sixteen, he enlists in the U.S. Marines to serve in World War II. Ironically, he is trained to use the Navajo language in a special unit of Code Talkers who transmit messages in the Pacific at Guadalcanal, Bougainville and Iwo Jima.
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