Code Talker Quiz Chapters 1-6

slogan at the mission school

"Tradition is the enemy of progress."

Hweeldi

"place where only the wind can live"

Ned Begay

American name given to the narrator

Pearl Harbor Day

December 7, 1941

Kii Yazhi

Navajo name of the narrator

Jacob Benally

Navajo translator

Four Corners of the US

New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, Utah

Mr. Straight

Social Studies teacher

Rehoboth Mission School

mission school Ned attends

Punishments for speaking Navajo

mouth washed out with soap, beaten with sticks, locked in the basement

Ned's uncle

arranges the trip

Mr. Reamer

names the students

Jim Thorpe

famous Indian athlete

Principal O'Sullivan

red-faced man who yells at the children

Navajos are forbidden to do this

speak Navajo

John Roanhorse

stubborn Navajo who refused to stop speaking his native language and was locked in the basement

trading post

where the Navajos have seen white people before

Bilagaana

white people