Indigenous Sign Languages with Dr. Melanie McKay-Cody
The Heumann Perspective
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The Importance of Code Talkers
My father was in the Marines in the Second World War. And he was on Iwo Jima. He didn't tell me much about it, but he did say there was a group of code talkers. They used like a turtle which meant a tank, for example. So they would use classifiers. What we say in sign language to translate and only Indian people would use that. That's one tribe that has their own code talker. The last one, unfortunately, has passed away. Many of them, unfortunately, have passed away. There's a few left, but it is a huge honor. It is like the top honor to be a code talker because it couldn
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