The First Code Talkers: Native American Communicators in World War I short stories and gender-nonconforming characters seek love

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The First Code Talkers: Native American Communicators in World War I short stories and gender-nonconforming characters seek loveMany Americans know something about the Navajo code talkers in World War IIbut little else about the military service of Native Americans, who have served in our armed forces since the American Revolution, and still serve in larger numbers than any other ethnic group. But, as we learn in this splendid work of historical restitution, code talking originated in World War I among Native soldiers whose extraordinary service resulted, at long last, in U.