WWII Navajo Code Talker and longtime New Mexico lawmaker has died at 94
Navajo Nation officials have confirmed that John Pinto, a WWII Navajo Code Talker and long-time New Mexico lawmaker, has died at age 94. Pinto was part of a dwindling number of Code Talkers still alive. He was born in Lupton, Arizona.
A Navajo Code Talker's Journey - Zonnie Gorman
Recognized historian of the Navajo Code Talkers of World War II, Zonnie Gorman is an expert in her field and a dedicated teacher. She has served as a consultant to numerous documentaries, museum exhibitions and authors. Gorman is currently the Project Coordinator for the Circle of Light Navajo Educational Project (CLNEP), a nonprofit organization founded in May 2001 and located in Gallup, New Mexico. CLNEP offers a variety of Navajo role models to youth and fosters cultural pride and self worth, while educating them along with non-Navajos about the rich history, culture, language and contributions of the Navajo people.
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Navajo Code Talkers tribute on Route 66
We stopped in Gallup, New Mexico to visit the tribute to the Navajo Code Talkers. We also learned about other tribes who contributed to the war effort. Check out other Route 66 stories here:
Legendary New Mexico: Navajo Code Talker's Commitment
Gallup Inter tribal Ceremonial 2019 Navajo Long Walk Dance
The rein act of the long walk for the Native American here on the Navajo Nation
Travel Guide New Mexico tm, 90th Inter-Tribal Ceremonial, Gallup, New Mexico
The 90th Annual Inter-Tribal Ceremonial...Gallup, New Mexico!
People come from all over the world for this spectacular event, and whether you're eight...or eighty, it's an experience you'll never forget!
For decades, Native American groups have come to Gallup to perpetuate the tradition...the culture...the rich heritage of this annual event.
Highlights include the dances and competitive pow wows, with songs, dance steps and costumes passed down from generation to generation.
The parades are immensely popular....a continuous and colorful pageantry that includes tribal groups, dancers, horseback riders, Navajo Code Talkers and tribal royalty.
And for art lovers, this is THE event of the year. The authenticity and quality of the arts, crafts and world-class juried art show make this a shopper's paradise...an absolute gold mine!
For a touch of the wild west, enjoy the Ceremonial Rodeo...with dust-swirlin' action and heart-poundin' excitement!
And believe me...you could come just for the food! Navajo fry bread and tacos....Hopi corn stew...roasted corn on the cob...Zuni oven bread...you'll love every mouthwatering bite!!
It's the 90th Annual Inter-Tribal Ceremonial...August 2011at Red Rock State Park in Gallup.
The BNSF Gallup Subdivision in 4K
Gallup, New Mexico, is the largest city along the BNSF Gallup Subdivision between Flagstaff, Arizona, and Albuquerque. Approximately 21,000 people call Gallup home, and it is predominantly made up Native Americans from the Navajo, Hopi, and Zuni tribes.
The city was founded in 1881 as a railhead for the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad, and named after David Gallup, a paymaster for the railroad.
Gallup is an Amtrak train station at 201 East Highway 66 in downtown Gallup, New Mexico. It is the second busiest station in the state, with more than 16,000 boardings and alightings in 2014. The two-story station was built in the Mission Revival style in 1918. Then one of a series of Santa Fe railroad station hotels built across the southwestern and central United States by the Fred Harvey Company was connected to the depot in 1923. The fabulous El Navajo Hotel was designed by the master architect Mary Colter, blending Pueblo Revival and Art Deco styles, and decorated using Navajo sand paintings. The hotel was demolished in 1957 to widen Route 66. The depot reopened later as an unstaffed Amtrak station.
The city renovated the building in 1996 to serve as the Gallup Cultural Center to be operated by the Southwest Indian Foundation. In addition to a passenger waiting area, it is also home to the Gallup Visitor Center, which relocated to the station in 2004.
The Cultural Center houses a Storyteller Museum and Gallery of the Masters showcasing Native American Arts & Culture; the Kiva Cinema; and a coffee shop and a gift shop featuring jewelry, pottery, rugs and blankets, and other pieces by local Acoma, Zuni, Navajo, Hopi and other Native American artisans. The Museum includes exhibits on weaving, sandpainting, silversmithing, trains, and Historic Route 66.
A statue of Navajo Chief Manuelito by Tim Washburn stands in a plaza front of the Gallup Cultural Center. Next to the plaza is the Navajo Code Talker, a 12-foot bronze statue by famous Navajo/Ute sculptor Oreland Joe. The Navajo Code Talkers played a major role during World War II because the Japanese never cracked their language code.
The station is unique in that a fence guards the platform from the rest of the station. This is to prevent people getting onto BNSF's triple-tracked, high-speed, very busy Southern Transcon main line. It also makes it useless for railfanning.
The Southern Transcon is a railroad corridor between Southern California and Chicago, Illinois and serves as a BNSF Railway main line made up of 11 rail lines between Southern California and Chicago. Completed in its current alignment in 1908 by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, when it opened the Belen Cutoff in New Mexico and bypassed the steep grades of Raton Pass, it now serves as a mostly double-tracked intermodal corridor.
The Transcon is one of the most heavily trafficked rail corridors in the western United States. An average of almost 90 trains daily (over 100 trains on peak days) passed over the section between Belen and Clovis, New Mexico in 2006, each train typically 6000 to 8000 feet (1800 to 2400 meters) in length.
El Rancho Hotel, Gallup, New Mexico, is an historic hotel built by the brother of film director D.W. Griffith. It opened in 1937 as a base for movie productions. Employees were trained by the Fred Harvey Company. Famous guests include: Ronald Reagan
Jane Wyman
Spencer Tracy
Kirk Douglas
Katharine Hepburn
Jackie Cooper
John Wayne
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Young Marines at Navajo Code Talkers Day - 2017
Young Marines were in Window Rock, AZ Aug 12-14, 2017 to participate in the annual Navajo Code Talkers Day. In addition to making life-long friends from across the country, Young Marines assisted in picking up trash, hosted a 5K race, climbed Window Rock, marched in a parade and performed a wreath laying ceremony to honor the Navajo Code Talkers from WWII.
The Navajo Code Talkers were an important reason the Allies succeeded in the Pacific arena during World War II. In 1942, there were about 50,000 Navajo tribe members. As of 1945, 540 Navajos served as Marines, 420 as code talkers. The Navajo soldiers’ unbreakable code saved thousands of lives and helped end WWII.
The Navajo Code Talkers may have been World War II heroes, but the public didn’t realize it, because the code remained a top military secret for decades following the war.
About the Young Marines
The Young Marines is a national non-profit 501c (3) youth education and service program for boys and girls, age eight through the completion of high school. The Young Marines promotes the mental, moral and physical development of its members. The program focuses on teaching the values of leadership, teamwork and self-discipline, so its members can live and promote a healthy, drug-free lifestyle.
Since the Young Marines' humble beginnings in 1959 with one unit and a handful of boys, the organization has grown to 275 units with 9,200 youth and 2,760 adult volunteers in 40 states, the District of Columbia and Okinawa with affiliates in other countries.
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Navajo Pastors At 9 11 Memorial NYC 2014
Navajo Pastors, Ministry workers of other tribes, Native American friends, and other friends in support of Native Americans came out to the Opening of the 9/11 Memorial in New York City. The group was from all over America with most of the Pastors coming from the Navajo Reservation in New Mexico. Pastor Pete Belon from Gallup/Smith Lake New Mexico was instrumental in bringing the group together. Pastor Belon has the Smith Lake School Cornerstone Ministry, Smith Lake, New Mexico, on the Navajo Reservation.
The date was 5/24/2014. The day before the group spent the day in Washington, DC praying for return of American values at the Supreme Court, National Capital Building (Congress), the White House, and the Lincoln Memorial.
In attendance with us showing support from the Biker Nation was Bill (Top Fuel Bill 9/11 Ride Williamson) Cecilia Williamson, daughter Sierra Williamson and friend.
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The purpose of being at the 9/11 Memorial was to not only pray for the healing of our nation, but also to pray at St. Paul's Chapel. The significance of praying at the Chapel is that it was where General George Washington had his personal pew and work area. It was there that he declared and documented America to be a Christian nation!!!
Interestingly enough all of the buildings around St. Paul's Chapel were damaged by the fall of the twin towers and St. Paul's was not damaged!!! The Navajo and other Native American Christians would not leave the 9/11 Memorial without praying at the original seat of power of America and the place where the declaration was made that our country is a Christian Nation!!!
Veteran's Memorial in Window Rock, Arizona .U.S.A.
Window Rock Navajo Tribal Park & Veteran's Memorial in Window Rock, GETTING ITS NAME FROM THE HOLE IN THE 200 FOOT HIGH SANDSTONE HILL. WINDOW ROCK, ARIZONA. U.S.A. MAY, 2007.
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Duane Chili Yazzie
The Honorable Shiprock Chapter President Duane Chili Yazzie at the Navajo Nation Council Special Session on Dec 23, 2013. Mr. Yazzie questioned their leadership, lack of accountablility and transparency in conducting business on behalf of the Navajo Nation where over $85 million is being spent to buy Navajo Mine and waiving all PAST, PRESENT & FUTURE LIABILITIES without Navajo citizens input.
Navajo Leader Feels Betrayed by EPA Over 'contaminated' Water Supply
The president of the Navajo Nation said he feels betrayed that water supplied by the Environmental Protection Agency appeared to be tainted with a black oily substance.
The water was delivered by the EPA to Shiprock, New Mexico, on Friday 14 August, to sustain agricultural operations and livestock after an EPA accident released a toxic plume from Gold King Mine into their natural water supply.
When the water arrived, Joe Ben Jr, a representative of Shiprock’s farm board, said he rejected it after noting signs of contamination.
EPA officials told the Navajo president, Russell Begaye, that Ben is “an unstable individual” who was “agitating” – potentially to achieve some kind of political edge in the escalating discord between the EPA and the Navajo nation, according to Begaye.
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Filmed Canyon de Chelly (1983).
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APACHE, NAVAJO & HOPI INDIANS TRAVELOGUE MOVIE TALES OF THE RED FEATHER NATIVE AMERICANS 68284
This late 1960s color travelogue film provides highlights of the Apache, Navajo, and Hopi Indians keeping ancient traditions. It is narrated by Jack Douglas as part of the America! Television series, produced and photographed by Joseph Meagher. Buffalo roam on a plain. The Grand Canyon and lakes with mountain reflections are panned. Goats and sheep are herded in the shadows of oil derricks with flames of excess gas burning at the top. The Hoover Dam is shown (1:13-2:50). The remains of Pueblo Bonito in New Mexico is shown, including an artist’s rendering of its original appearance. Pueblos are shown in Taos (3:00-3:50). A group of colorfully-dressed Navajo women play a stick game outside a hogan. A Navajo baby is swaddled onto a cradle board (3:51-5:15). A Navajo man puts logs on a fire to heat stones for a sweat lodge. He places the stones inside the specially-built miniature hogan. Blankets over the doorway keep the heat in. The man disrobes down to a loin cloth and enters. After emerging, he covers himself with dirt by rolling in it (5:16-7:25). Goldwater’s Department Store in Phoenix had a large display of Hopi Kachina dolls. A Hopi man wearing traditional headgear and a beaded turquoise necklace hand-saws wood to create the Kachina doll shape before hand-carving it. To paint it, he fashions a paint brush out of a dried yucca leaf. A large Kachina decorated with feathers is put out to bring rain to the corn. A rain storm arrives (7:26-10:00). The Scottsdale Parada del Sol features marching bands, Indians in headdresses riding horses, people in stagecoaches, and floats (10:10-10:55). The Navajo Tribal Fair includes rodeos and 4-H sheep judging (10:57-11:55). The Gallup Inter-Tribal Ceremonial includes a parade of Indians of different tribes in traditional clothing, including Zuni women. The stadium hosts rodeos and games of stickball. Dances include the Deer Dance and shadow figures in front of a campfire (11:56-12:55). The Southwest Museum of the American Indian includes an authentic Blackfoot Indian teepee decorated in pictures. Mannequins wear Plains Indians garments. A shirt is heavily decorated with elk teeth. Knives, hatchets, a peace pipe, and beaded bags are shown. The museum has an art collection of Indian paintings, including Sitting Bull. His 1861 Winchester is in the museum (12:57-15:05). An Indian woman makes corn beads from scratch. She uses crepe paper to dye the kernels red. She then strings them to make necklaces, which she sells at the Santo Domingo Indian Trading Post for $1 (15:06-16:42). Mission of San Luis Rey, Pala Mission, and Mission San Antonio de Padua grounds are shown, including a shrine. A nun teaches a classroom of Cupeno Indian students (16:44-18:53). A view of Monument Valley is shown from a plane, followed by earlier clips (18:54-19:50). The Laubins sit outside a decorated teepee. They document the “Ancient Indian Dances” by performing them. A Grass (Omaha) Dance is shown using traditional costumes, drums, and music (19:51-22:58).
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Navajo Nation Branch Chiefs Agreement
Navajo Nation President Russell Begaye and Vice President Jonathan Nez signed an agreement with the Legislative and Judicial Branches for a unified position on Navajo Nation priorities. The signing ceremony was lauded as historic and a breakthrough for the benefit of the Navajo people.
David Okalataka - Hopi Tribe
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Native American Veterans Gourd Dance 2015 - Part 1
Nov 11 2015 Repeat of LIVE transmission Native Media Network NDN1.com from the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center in Albuquerque NM
Home a film by Yvonne Latty
The short documentary entitled Home by New York University journalism professor Yvonne Latty is a condensed version of a longer 51-minute documentary that she plans for release in late spring.
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Ms. Latty, is a former award-winning reporter for the Philadelphia Daily News for 13 years, and currently the director of Reporting New York and Reporting the Nation programs at NYU's Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute.
The film was shot at different locations across the sprawling Navajo reservation this past January. Viewers will meet a cross section of Navajo people in the midst of the crisis, from families that are waiting for homes to interviews with NHA and Navajo leaders -- some who have been long-time tribal leaders -- who are making inroads in finding solutions to a seemingly overwhelming housing crisis.
There is a wealth of information in the NHA Housing Needs Assessment Study, and it can be downloaded from the NHA website at hooghan.org.
JUST RELEASED (OCT. 2014) - Watch the FULL 51-minute complete documentary 'To Build a Home'