In a time where many Indigenous languages are endangered, two University of Wisconsin affiliates are working to bring new life to the Navajo language by developing science terms that previously did ...

To his peers in Shiprock, New Mexico, he was known as “the detective.” As a kid, he was always asking questions, wondering how things worked and why. “That’s probably where (my love of science) ...

Aug. 14 is Navajo Code Talkers Day, a date President Ronald Reagan dedicated in 1982 to "all members of the Navaho Nation and to all Native Americans who gave their special talents and their lives so ...

Navajo code talker John Kinsel, Sr. celebrated a major milestone earlier this year — his 106th birthday. Who were the World War II Navajo Code Talkers? During World War II, the U.S. Marines selected a ...

During World War II, the challenge was not just getting messages to the front lines. It was doing so quickly and secretly. So the U.S. turned to the Navajo Code Talkers. Researcher Zonnie Gorman, the ...

Sterling Martin found that when he returned home to Shiprock while studying biochemistry at the University of Iowa, he had difficulty communicating his work to his family in their native tongue.

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