Code talkers crack Hollywood's cipher From: Indian Country Today (Lakota Times) | Date: January 12, 2000| Author: Norrell, Brenda | . Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

Indian Country Today (Lakota Times)

01-12-2000

Code talkers crack Hollywood's cipher

By Brenda Norrell

Today staff

WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. - The Navajo Code Talkers' unbreakable code using the
Dine language - chosen for its complex syntax and tonalities - helped win
World War II in the Pacific with words like Da-hetih-hi (hummingbird) for
fighter plane.

But now the Navajo Code Talkers are Hollywood chic - sought after by two,

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