A POEM LOOKING FOR A HOME

Coyote

Dedicated to the Diné bikéyah (Navajo) Code Talkers

Creating "Coyote"  (An excerpt from NavajoCode-October 8, 2014)

Probably the most famous use of the Navajo language outside of the Navajo Nation was during World War II. 420 young Navajo men were recruited and became Marines codetalkers during the war in the Pacific. They were picked because they spoke both English and their native language fluently, so they could receive orders and relay them to other codetalkers to give to their superiors. The Navajo language had not been studied by the enemy, so orders could be issued without fear of interception.

Extract from "Coyote"

"I hear and speak the language of my pack.

What queries and replies do we seek with

yips and yells, plaintive, far

from our place among the hills?"

Afterthoughts from "Coyote"

“Strong words outlast the paper they are written upon. ” 
― Joseph Bruchac, Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two

Walk your path without fear regardless of other’s attitudes.  Be who you were born to be.

Anonymous