Navajo Wind talkers

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

Hail to the Fourth of July!

Several of our family and many members of our friends and the clan served in WWII, several of whom became members of the Navajo Wind talkers, valiant warriors for America.

 

[DudleySmith]

You didn't have to be genetically a native to be a member of many tribes. Few tribes are genetically 'pure', and many have members whose families have been members for many generations that don't have a drop of native blood in them.

One example is John Ross, Cherokee Chief, was 7/8 Scotch; he is also one of the thieves who got many Cherokee killed on the Trail Of Tears when he and other chiefs stole the millions of dollars and all the supplies President Jackson gave them to relocate with, then refused to move, causing the tragedy that followed.

Many tribes had black members, and now some are trying to expel their black members.

Nearly all of them practiced torture for sport and family entertainment , so no need for any pity parties for the majority of them anyway.

 

[1srelluc]

I thought that the over the top Windtalkers movie did a disservice to their contribution.

 

[Deadstick]

Hail to the Fourth of July!

Several of our family and many members of our friends and the clan served in WWII, several of whom became members of the Navajo Wind talkers, valiant warriors for America.

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There is a good movie about them

You didn't have to be genetically a native to be a member of many tribes. Few tribes are genetically 'pure', and many have members whose families have been members for many generations that don't have a drop of native blood in them.

One example is John Ross, Cherokee Chief, was 7/8 Scotch; he is also one of the thieves who got many Cherokee killed on the Trail Of Tears when he and other chiefs stole the millions of dollars and all the supplies President Jackson gave them to relocate with, then refused to move, causing the tragedy that followed.

Many tribes had black members, and now some are trying to expel their black members.

Nearly all of them practiced torture for sport and family entertainment , so no need for any pity parties for the majority of them anyway.

Victim blaming again.

 

[DudleySmith]

There is a good movie about them

Victim blaming again.

They were never 'victims', they were victimizers. You know nothing about their history.

 

[Deadstick]

They were never 'victims', they were victimizers. You know nothing about their history.

I know more than enough to know you are talking nonsense.

 

[DudleySmith]

Same as they were doing Before Whitey, the bigger tribes still bully the smaller tribes even to this day/.

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[whitehall]

Are they still alive? God bless' em.

 

[DudleySmith]

I know more than enough to know you are talking nonsense.

No, you don't; you're just sucking up to some peer group narrative you think makes you sound kewl n stuff.

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

The last died about a decade ago.

Dudley Smith is talking smithite, which means he has not a clue.

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

 

[Deadstick]

They were never 'victims', they were victimizers. You know nothing about their history.

You sound like the sort of guy who would have been fully on board with Chivington at Sand Creek.

 

[DudleySmith]

You sound like the sort of guy who would have been fully on board with Chivington at Sand Creek.

Nobody cares what they sound like to you, you're just another uneducated racist parrot like all the other Whitey Sucks N Stuff!!! tards.

 

[Deadstick]

Nobody cares what they sound like to you, you're just another uneducated racist parrot like all the other Whitey Sucks N Stuff!!! tards.

Do you even know what i was talking about you moron?

 

[DudleySmith]

Do you even know what i was talking about you moron?

You certainly didn't. Why. do you think your gibbering was clever n stuff?

 

[whitehall]

Wind Talkers get the spotlight because of a movie. Their contribution to the war effort was to give the Marines the ability to communicate by radio. Statistics say about 13 were KIA while the other 1,500 Native Americans who died in combat are relatively anonymous. Iwo Jima Flag raiser Marine Ira Hayes survived the war but was ignored by his own people until he died alone from exposure after a night of drinking.

 

[Hossfly]

The Wind Talkers were famous when I joined the Army in 1957. They could relay messages in the clear in their language because the Japanese couldn't translate the talk. They had a vitally important role in the war effort that helped shorten the war.

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

Wind Talkers get the spotlight because of a movie. Their contribution to the war effort was to give the Marines the ability to communicate by radio. Statistics say about 13 were KIA while the other 1,500 Native Americans who died in combat are relatively anonymous. Iwo Jima Flag raiser Marine Ira Hayes survived the war but was ignored by his own people until he died alone from exposure after a night of drinking.

That's what I would expect from a colonizer essay.

 

[DudleySmith]

That's what I would expect from a colonizer essay.

Yes, just parrot the packaged rhetoric; you certainly haven't found out anything on your own.

 

[DudleySmith]

I thought that the over the top Windtalkers movie did a disservice to their contribution.

Nicolas Cage made a particularly silly movie playing a Marine assigned to guard a wind talker, and kill him if he was in danger of being captured. Most of the movie was about Cage running around single handedly mowing down hundreds of Japs, though, so there wasn't much historical fact in it.