{"id":1832,"date":"2013-04-17T15:40:34","date_gmt":"2013-04-17T20:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/?p=1832"},"modified":"2013-04-17T15:42:25","modified_gmt":"2013-04-17T20:42:25","slug":"joe-vandever-navajo-code-talker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/joe-vandever-navajo-code-talker\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Vandever &#8211; Navajo Code Talker"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\">Navajo Code Talker Joe Vandever<\/span><\/h1>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Navajo Oral History Project<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/joe-vandever-navajo-code-talker\/joevandever-5661\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1833\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1833\" alt=\"Joe Vandever - Navajo Code Talker\" src=\"http:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/JoeVandever-5661-599x720.jpg\" width=\"599\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"http:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/JoeVandever-5661-599x720.jpg 599w, http:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/JoeVandever-5661-249x300.jpg 249w, http:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/JoeVandever-5661.jpg 1333w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 599px) 100vw, 599px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Photo by Elisenda Xifra Reverter<\/em><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Joe Vandever Sr. lives in Haystack, New Mexico. After growing up near Grants, New Mexico, he was recruited into the 297th Platoon of the United States Marine Corps.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"http:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/joe-vandever-navajo-code-talker\/mccormick-joev-outside\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1835\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1835\" alt=\"Joe Vandever - Navajo Code Talker\" src=\"http:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/McCormick-JoeV-Outside-514x720.jpg\" width=\"514\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"http:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/McCormick-JoeV-Outside-514x720.jpg 514w, http:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/McCormick-JoeV-Outside-214x300.jpg 214w, http:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/McCormick-JoeV-Outside.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 514px) 100vw, 514px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Photo by Elisenda Xifra Reverter<\/em><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Joe was enlisted as a Navajo Code Talker, traveled on 16 different ships and saw action on several South Pacific islands during World War II. Returning from the war, Joe served the Din\u00e9 people as a medicine man, practicing his spiritual rituals and beliefs that he still holds closely today.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gf8IGiYN6JM\" height=\"480\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Project completed by:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The project team working on a documentary film about Joe&#8217;s life includes Shannon Bolte and Joel Farber from Winona State University, and James McKenzie and Shawn Tsosie, Din\u00e9 College students.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">This documentary film was researched, photographed, edited and produced by students of Winona State University (Winona, Minnesota) and Din\u00e9 College (Tsaile, Arizona, Navajo Nation) during summer 2012.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">It contains stories Joe Vandever Sr. of Haystack, New Mexico, told the students during several hours of interviews about his life.<\/p>\n<p>This documentary film is archived at the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.navajonationmuseum.org\/\">Navajo Nation Museum<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nnlib.org\/\">Navajo Nation Library<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.winona.edu\/library\/\">Winona State University Library<\/a>, and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/library.dinecollege.edu\/\">Din\u00e9 College Library<\/a>, and will be archived at the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/nmai.si.edu\/home\/\">Smithsonian Institution\u2019s National Museum of the American Indian<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The film is part of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/masscommunimania.blogspot.com\/search\/label\/Navajo%20Oral%20History\">Navajo Oral History project<\/a>, a multi-year collaboration between the Winona State University<a href=\"http:\/\/masscommunimania.blogspot.com\/\">Mass Communication Department<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dinecollege.edu\/\">Din\u00e9 College<\/a>\u2013 The official Tribal College of the Navajo Nation<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Navajo Code Talker Joe Vandever Navajo Oral History Project Photo by Elisenda Xifra Reverter Joe Vandever Sr. lives in Haystack, New Mexico. After growing up near Grants, New Mexico, he was recruited into the 297th Platoon of the United States Marine Corps. Photo by Elisenda Xifra Reverter Joe was enlisted as a Navajo Code Talker, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[699,698,700,271,613,112],"class_list":["post-1832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-navajo-oral-history-project","tag-haystack","tag-joe-vandever","tag-marine-corps","tag-navajo-code-talker","tag-navajo-oral-history","tag-new-mexico","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1832"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1839,"href":"http:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1832\/revisions\/1839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}