Code Quote by Rick Renzi

My wartime experiences developing a code that utilized the Navajo language taught how important our Navajo culture is to our country. For me that…

— Chester Nez

“The United States Navy, during the war, used Navajos as "code-talkers" who relayed messages from ship to ship, talking in Navajo (a language not…

— Michael Lesk

The Navajo Code Talkers were Marines and heroes who helped secure victory in WWII. We owe them a debt that can never be repaid.…

— Ruben Gallego

I have a high regard for Native languages and the pivotal role they have played in our nation's history

— Rick Renzi

“One of the many facets of Navajo culture that appeals to me is the lack of value attached to vengeance. This ‘eye for an…

— Anne Hillerman

I always have one or two, sometimes more, Navajo or other tribes' cultural elements in mind when I start a plot. In Thief of…

— Tony Hillerman

“That Native American cultures are imperiled is important and not just to Indians. It is important to everyone, or should be. When we lose…

— David Treuer

Native people such as the Cherokees are just as human and complex and real as Americans are, and our nation needs to respect American…

— Joseph Bruchac

Our language, one of our most precious natural resources, deserves at least as much protection as our woodlands, streams and whooping cranes.

— James Lipton

We want our men and women to be closely attuned to the cultures in which they operate and to speak the local language.

— Gina Haspel

Indigenous languages are Canada's national treasures. They are our identity. We simply have to put greater effort into rejuvenating and revitalizing them. It is…

— Perry Bellegarde

“For millennia, Native Americans have had a relationship with the land that encompasses respect and appreciation for all it provides.”

— Deborah Kesten