in order to guide their lives

One day I realized that my entire back seat was filled with relatives who wondered why I wasn't paying more attention to their part of the family story

transmitted cultural knowledge

identity confusion

"—Booklist

Thomas H. Begay and the Navajo Code Talkers queer in order to guide theirThomas H. Begay was one of the young Navajo men who, during World War II, invented and used a secret, unbreakable communications code based on their native Din language to help win the war in the Pacific. Although the book includes anecdotes from other code talkers, its central narrative revolves around Begay. It tells his story, from his birth near the Navajo reservation, his childhood spent herding sheep, his adolescence in federally mandated