The Native American Code Talkers Who Helped Win WWI
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- It was fall of 1918. The Allied military’s tactical movements were jeopardized by the German military’s superior espionage capabilities. Not only were the Germans tapping Allied phone lines, they were able to crack the code. That’s when two Native American soldiers speaking Choctaw came in, and would ultimately help turn the tide of the war. After a chance encounter with an officer, they were charged with setting up a new kind of communications system, one that required ingenuity and made heroes out of an oppressed group of Native Americans.
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So horrible that the government took Native children away from their families and then sent them to state schools and punished them for speaking their language. Then used them in war. There are before pictures of Native children in their traditional dress and hairstyles and the after pics of them as they spent time in the school are so depressing.
apush class got me woke about native american oppression
That's great you're learning new things! Just don't say woke...that term needs to die
Peach the government could only do so because the people let it.
i've seen the before and after pictures too it's so heartbreaking because they literally stripped them of their culture to force them to conform to their ideals
Simon R The majority of Native people did not want to send their children away. There was kidnapping and forced assimilations with the help of beatings/rapes at the Christian boarding schools and later they were thrown into the streets of urban America
I'm Choctaw and this was great !
As a Navajo, thank you for your ancestors helping our boys in France during WW1
Always remember that they were here first. And they were here for a LONG ASS TIME.
Never give into the pressures and always try to keep your family's language alive. I grew up in an area full of Dutch and German immigrants. Literally I was the only non white kid in school. None of my classmates can speak their great grandparents language bc the parents were afraid of appearing non american. Fast word to the 2000s a Midwest town of mostly dutch background and no one speaks Dutch. Ironically this same area is the Ottawa tribes home. I was the only child who spoke two languages because my parents forced me to remember and practice. I hope everyone keeps passing down their language and keeping it alive ❤️
We may have lost the war if it wasn't for these wonderful people.!
❤🎉
A movie was made that was close to this, Windtalkers (2002). But the movie took place with Navajo and it was during WWII.
Also there were the Navajo codetalkers of ww2 who left the Japanese puzzled.
Beautiful language nonetheless. Wanna learn it.
Using secret friend languages before it was cool
Love this giving credit to the Human Beings
I thank all code talkers but i mainly thank the Hopi code talkers because i feel they been forgotten which is sad and makes me angry
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Ends off with "pretty amazing" what is amazing? That is an understatement
You guys should read code talkers it talks about this
I'm reading a book based on people like this and it's so interesting.
You should do a story on Navajo code talkers next
Will you discuss the Native American- the First Americans and their contributions to the world wars?
Wow they were strategists. It was very ingenious on their part the code (mother tongue) to better deceive the enemy
I once talked in code... I was diagnosed with ADHD. My parent said I was on a special spectrum.
Mandela: " If you speak to people with your tongue, they will understand it. When you speak with theirs, it goes to their heart."
can this be made into a movie, please?
Windtalkers?
Used the same code talkers during WWII. It was that effective.
BHuang92 different code talkers, same idea though
BHuang92 no they used the Navajo tribe for that
FlyingCookievan321 Thanks for the input. Really appreciate it.
last time i was this early
what? it was normal
Normal enough to win but ok dnt appreciate
Ben Carterby was my cousins Great Great Grandpa Chahta Sia Hoke
what about the navajo speakers during ww2
Is this the guys from that Nicholas Cage's WWII movie?
Nz did something similar with the Maori language
Goddamn phantom limbs.
It hurts me to know how open to new settlers and then to have the people who you helped to survive and then to be murdered by the same people it is such a terrible state that the American people have done over and over again even up until today and to force a religion on a culture is such a breach of everything we should stand up against not allowing it to happen and say nothing and the years of suffering I can only imagine and I'm ashamed to look back at the history of the camps and the way the native people are treated right now forget about all the atrocities in the time from the white settlers landed it hurts my heart when I see the stuff done against NATIVE PEOPLE every single step of the way some sort of alternative motivation has dictated the way they should live and just put up with the same injustice they have been receiving for a long time and for the thing to be protecting the code above the man who is single handedly winning on the code aspect wow I get captured but it shows the value would the order have been made if it was a white person who just knew what the code was ?? May the spirits bless all nations of the native people who have been outstanding in their morality from day 1 🌍💚✌☝️is a code worth a human being's life 🤔🌍💚✌☝️
What about the Navajo code talkers that helped in Japan?
Jacob Norrie that was WWII, this clip was about WWI
Oh my bad didn't read carefully enough
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Hi
You guys should talk about the 442nd regiment;Japanese- American soldiers that fought in world war 2. The US army released them from the state-side camps and sent em to war
Who else is here for Mrs. Weisman's class?
Before secret bestfriend code words were cool.....
I thought the Brits used the same method in WW2 but using Welsh.A language and people they oppressed.To fool the Germs.
hi mom
Used and abused
they were called windtalkers. They were also present in the pacific during ww2.
HIGH IMPACT they were not called windtalkers. That was just a movie title
The soldier in the demonstration is wearing a wwii helmet. Smh
is this true?
It wasn't the Choctaw it was the Navajo I know because my great grandfather was one his name is Chester Nez and he passed away he was one of the original 29 to go and serve
The Choctaw served as code talkers in WW1, the Navajo served in WW2. Different wars.
Yeet
Notification squad!
I love how America used the native language for both world wars, won, but still treated the native people like crap.
Indigenous People*
Seriously? That is what you have to contribute to this video comment section?
3rd
0:51 idk why you had to put that scene there, very annoying.
First
Your-pa dad-pa smells-pa like-pa a woman-pa!
Diary of a wimpy kid is for 8 year olds
And that's why they used native languages instead of common languages
so is this why mexicans don't have to learn english in our country?
first
this took place in ww2
It took place in world war 1 at the battle of the Somme
Funny lies....
Learn ur history sad u dnt knw shit let ur people die then u wud sing a different story dnt sound ignorant
Big fuking deal. Oh, I am very impressed. NOT.