Code Talker

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Code talkers in the United States have been storied, honored and lauded for their military contributions. But much less known, and barely recognized for their service by the Canadian government, were Cree code talkers from Canada who assisted the Allies in World War II. In Canada, the code talkers were never officially recognized or commended, partly because their work was considered so covert that they were sworn to secrecy even long after the war was over. The program was not declassified until 1963, but even then most did not speak of their work. And now they have entirely died out. Because many military terms didn’t exist in native languages, new terms had to be made up for things like tanks, and machine guns and bombers. A machine gun might be called for example, a “little gun that shoots fast”, while a Mosquito fighter-bomber would use the cree word for mosquito- “sakimes”. Canadian code talkers were never honoured by either the Canadian or US governments. Because the Canadian Cree worked for the US. The Navajo code wasn't the only unbreakable code, just the most known.
I had six great uncles serve and two that were Metis & cree code talkers. I never heard them talk about the their time in the war unless we were on the trap line and they were drunk.