{"id":1871,"date":"2013-05-03T15:27:09","date_gmt":"2013-05-03T20:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/?p=1871"},"modified":"2013-05-03T15:27:09","modified_gmt":"2013-05-03T20:27:09","slug":"samuel-tom-holiday-navajo-code-talker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/samuel-tom-holiday-navajo-code-talker\/","title":{"rendered":"Samuel Tom Holiday &#8211; Navajo Code Talker"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\">Living History Samuel Tom Holiday Navajo Code Talker<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/samuel-tom-holiday-navajo-code-talker\/samuel-tso-holiday-silver-medallion-5374\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1872\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1872\" alt=\"Samuel Tso Holiday-Silver Medallion \" src=\"http:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Samuel-Tso-Holiday-Silver-Medallion-5374-720x514.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"514\" srcset=\"http:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Samuel-Tso-Holiday-Silver-Medallion-5374-720x514.jpg 720w, http:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Samuel-Tso-Holiday-Silver-Medallion-5374-300x214.jpg 300w, http:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Samuel-Tso-Holiday-Silver-Medallion-5374.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Photo by Tom Grier\/Navajo Oral History Project.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Despite being forbidden to speak the Navajo language at boarding schools, Samuel Holiday recognized the importance of his language and culture.<\/p>\n<p>He shares stories of his service in the U.S. Marines during World War II as a testament to this power. As a Navajo Code Talker, he served in the South Pacific, transmitting and receiving messages that were never deciphered by the Japanese.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/samuel-tom-holiday-navajo-code-talker\/kusilek-sam-holidaymuseum\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1873\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1873\" alt=\"Samuel Tom Holiday Navajo Code Talker\" src=\"http:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Kusilek-Sam-HolidayMUSEUM-720x474.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"474\" srcset=\"http:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Kusilek-Sam-HolidayMUSEUM-720x474.jpg 720w, http:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Kusilek-Sam-HolidayMUSEUM-300x197.jpg 300w, http:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Kusilek-Sam-HolidayMUSEUM.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Photo by Tom Grier\/Navajo Oral History Project.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Samuel\u00b4s legacy goes beyond his military duty. He is a role model and source of inspiration for Navajo youth.<\/p>\n<p>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.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8jZ_Z1s6G7s\" height=\"480\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It contains stories Samuel Tom Holiday of Kayenta, Arizona, told the students during several hours of interviews about his life.<br \/>\nSamuel Tom Holiday Winona<\/p>\n<p>Project completed by:<br \/>\nKelsey Curtis &#8211; DC<br \/>\nLiam Krause &#8211; WSU<br \/>\nRachel Rivers &#8211; WSU<br \/>\nChristine Willie &#8211; DC<\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Living History Samuel Tom Holiday Navajo Code Talker Photo by Tom Grier\/Navajo Oral History Project. Despite being forbidden to speak the Navajo language at boarding schools, Samuel Holiday recognized the importance of his language and culture. He shares stories of his service in the U.S. Marines during World War II as a testament to this [&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":[121,150,271,718],"class_list":["post-1871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-navajo-oral-history-project","tag-arizona","tag-kayenta","tag-navajo-code-talker","tag-samuel-tom-holiday","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1871","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=1871"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1876,"href":"http:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1871\/revisions\/1876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}