Creator: Doris Atkinson Paul; E. J. Balbos; John Ashi Benally; Paul H. Blatchford; John Brown; Sandy Burr; Lee Cannon; John Claw; Teddy Draper; Ted Evans; Carl Nelson Gorman; Dean Hickman; Samuel Holiday; Lloyd House; Philip Johnston; Jimmie Kelly King; Martin Link; William McCabe; Raymond Nakai; Peter Sandoval; Sam Silversmith; Albert Smith; Frank Tsosie Thompson; William Dean Wilson

Subjects: World War II, Navajo code talkers, Navajo Indians, Interviews

Description:

The collection contains taped interviews by Doris Paul of Navajos who served as code talkers during World War II. Also interviewed were members of the Navajo Nation government and cultural institutions, a U.S. Marine 4th Division Reunion Chairman, and Philip Johnston, the initiator of the code talker program. The interviews were used for writing her book "The Navajo Code Talkers" (1973). Also included is a taped recording of a banquet in 1975 honoring the code talkers following the Rose Bowl Parade.
The finding aid for the collection is available online: https://findingaids.lib.msu.edu/repositories/2/resources/3229.

Format: Audio/mp3

Collection Number: 00250

Language: English

Rights Management: Educational use only, no other permissions given. Copyright to this resource is held by Michigan State University and is provided here for educational purposes only. It may not be reproduced or distributed in any format without written permission of the University Archives & Historical Collections, Michigan State University.

Contributing Institution: Michigan State University Archives & Historical Collections

Relation: Doris A. Paul Collection

Contributor: MSU Archives and Historical Collections