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
