by Rich Wandschneider | Jun 8, 2019 | Chester Nez, David Treuer, Hearbeat of Wounded Knee, Louis Oakes, Mohawk code talkers, navajo code talkers, vanishing Indian
I apologize for the long blog silence—and shame myself for it. These posts are a way of putting something new I have learned or deciphered into memory. They’re recordings of my own life lessons. And I’ve been lazy for weeks.Enough of philosophy: an article in...
by Rich Wandschneider | Jun 28, 2014 | Alvin Josephy, Chester Nez, Code Talker, Navajo, Patriot Chiefs, World War II, WW II in Pacific
The last of the original 29 World War II Navajo code-talkers, Chester Nez, passed just weeks ago at the age of 93. The cruel ironies in his story are many, but the greatest of them haunted Nez to the end: “All those years, telling you not to speak Navajo, and then to...
