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| View Original: | City leaders hold carved prayer staffs honoring individual Navajo Code Talkers at a gathering of Native Peoples at the Colorado State Fair in Pueblo, Colorado LCCN2015633829.tif.tiff (8168x5792) | |||
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| Keywords: City leaders hold carved prayer staffs honoring individual Navajo Code Talkers at a gathering of Native Peoples at the Colorado State Fair in Pueblo, Colorado LCCN2015633829.tif 1 photograph digital tiff file color Notes They are left to right Tomas Thundershock Monroe a Navajo Tiwa and Choctaw descendant; state fair general manager Chris Wiseman; Pueblo County sheriff Kirk Taylor; police chief Luis Velez; White Mountain Apache tribal member Lance Rivera; Pueblo District Attorney Jeff Chostner; and White Mountain Apache Gilbert Redsleeves Code talkers are people in the 20th century who used obscure languages as a means of secret communication during wartime The term is most prominently associated with United States soldiers during the world wars who used their knowledge of Native American languages as a basis to transmit coded messages that the enemy could not decipher ; Forms part of Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M Highsmith Archive ; Credit line Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M Highsmith Archive Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division ; Title date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer ; Purchase; Carol M Highsmith Photography Inc ; 2015; DLC/PP-2015 068 2015 Creator Carol M Highsmith Library of Congress Catalog http //lccn loc gov/2015633829 Image download https //cdn loc gov/master/pnp/highsm/33800/33813a tif Original url http //hdl loc gov/loc pnp/highsm 33813 No known restrictions on publication LOC-image highsm 33813 PD-Highsmith Images uploaded by Fæ Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M Highsmith Archive Pueblo Colorado Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M Highsmith Archive Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Photographs by Carol M Highsmith Colorado State Fair | ||||