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Is it still possible to use the Navajo language as a military code?
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Is the plural still Navajo or is it Navajos?
It's still Navajo, or "Navajo Nation"
Did the Navajo Indians disappear?
No. Today they are the largest tribe in the US with over 300,000 members. The Navajo Nation is the size of Holland and Belgium put together, 27,000 square miles. The Navajo Nation is doing well.
How did the Navajo people help the country during the war?
The Navajo were recruited to serve in the military to help create a Navajo code and used it to confuse the Japanese. They were called the Navajo Code Talkers and a few are still alive. They finally received medals from the President. Only the Navajo could use and fully understand the code. Some of the upper military leaders learned some of it as it was created and they taught the Navajos how to send and receive code.
What is the Language spoken by the Navajo tribe?
The Navajo language belongs to the Na-Dene family of languages, which is in turn a part of the Athabaskan language family. The Athabaskan are a large group of distantly linked Native American people. They are located in 2 chief Northern and Southern clusters in North America. They all share a language family, despite the distance between some of the groups. The Northern group of the Athabaskan is more densely numbered, but there are at least 4 languages from this family spoken in the United States Southwest. Navajo is one of the Southern Athatbaskan languages, and language family is the largest in North America in number of languages spoken and number speakers.Above retrieved from, http://www.foreign-languages-school.com/Navajo-Language.htmlViper1
Are Navajo still alive?
yes, there are over 300,000 members of the Navajo tribe in 2014
What is the Navajo word for Fighter Plane?
The Navajo language does not include a native word for fighter plane.In the Navajo code used in World War 2, the word used was dahetihhi, which means "humming bird" - this ensured that even if the Japanese could somehow translate the word it would still not make any sense. The code worked in two stages: first, take a native word such as jaysho (buzzard) and then apply it to something military (a bomber plane). Nobody other than the code talkers themselves could make that connection.
How did the Navajo use the codetalker?
Human language. The Navajo people, being one race in a species of many intelligent, modern Homosapiens, communicated as we still do today with sophisticated language. Navajo people exist right now, especially in North America. Most all of them speak English, but many thousands of them also speak the old Navajo tongue. I have to believe that the Navajo are, and were, very much like the rest of us in the ways that matter most. In love, justice, religion, art, science, culture, and ambition they dominated their world in their own time. They could not have accomplished it without language.
How is Navajo culture similar to the early Navajo culture?
Much of Navajo culture is the same even though it has gradually changed. Many things that are new to the Navajo become "Navajo-ized". For example working with silver came from the Spanish long ago but the patterns and aesthetics are very Navajo with fourfold symmetry and stones that have traditional religious/philosophical meanings. Weaving probably came from the Pueblo peoples and yet the themes are very Navajo. Even the word for car is not borrowed but from how the first model T's sounded- "Chidi", from chidi, chidi, chidi. Many Navajo live very modern "American" lives, but many others still have sheep and grow corn. Many still speak the Navajo language and many practice the traditional religion. For example, many people have a " first laugh" ceremony for their baby. Traditional philosophy is alive and well on the Navajo Nation
What year did the Navajo tribe end?
They still exist
Are the Navajo secret codes still in use today?
No, the sole purpose was to create a code that the Japanese could not break. Once WW2 ended there was no further use for it. The Japanese were very good at breaking our codes, but when you used a "book code" with words of another language that they did not know it stymied them. The Navajo Code Talkers did not speak ordinary Navajo in their messages, they translated the messages to Navajo then encoded it using the memorized "book code" and spoke those Navajo words. Even when the Japanese had captured Navajo soldiers (who of course had no code talking training), they could recognize the words but the message was gibberish.
How were Navajo people treated?
The Mexicans treated the Navajo's with much disrespect.
How is Navajo culture today similar to the early Navajo culture?
The Navajo have a remarkable ability to assimilate new ideas and technologies and make them Navajo. We believe the early Athabascan ancestors of the Navajo were hunter gatherers when they entered the Southwest probably about 900 years ago. By the 1300s or so they were growing corn, beans and squash and weaving cotton and making pottery. By the 1600s they were increasingly raising sheep and goats and weaving wool. In the 1700s they began to make silver jewelry. Large numbers, as percentage, served in the US military in the 20th century. Today there are 300,000 Navajo and they do almost every conceivable job. The Navajo have changed in many more ways but these are some of the outlines. Through it all, as far back as we can know, the four sacred mountains, Changing Woman, pollen, and the concept of Hózhǫ́ has been important.
