Peter McDonald - Navajo Code Talker

Peter McDonald, one of the three remaining Navajo code talkers will speak via Zoom from Arizona on Sunday, August 21 at 2 pm. In World War I and World War II, the United States relied on a special group of men to keep its messages safe from the enemy. Branches of the military recruited Native Americans from tribes across the country, including the Cherokee, Crow, Hopi, Muscogee Creek, Osage, Pawnee, Sac and Fox, Seminole, Sioux, Choctaw, Comanche and Navajo tribes. These brave men became known as a renowned group called Code Talkers.

Indeed, Native Americans are distinguished by their level of military service - more than any other ethnic group in the country - approximately 44,000 Native Americans served in WWII alone. and of those. some 400 were Navajo Code Talkers. At the age of 15, Peter McDonald, a Navajo from Teecnospos, AZ, enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps. He…