Navajo warriors : the great secret /

Navajo warriors : the great secret / / a co-production Bonne Pioche and Idéacom international, with the participation of France 2 ; a film by Michel Viotte ; producers, Emmanuel Priou, Allyson Luchack ; co-producers, Josette D. Normandeau, Jacques Nadeau ; written and directed by Michel Viotte.

Format	Video (Streaming) and Electronic
Publication Info	New York, NY : Filmakers Library, 2003.
Description	1 online resource (50 min.).
Supplemental Content	https://go.openathens.net/redirector/ecu.edu?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1641441
Subject(s)	United States. Marine Corps--Indians. Navajo Indians. Navajo language. World War, 1939-1945--Cryptography. World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Indian.

Other author/creator	Luchack, Allyson.
Other author/creator	Nadeau, Jacques.
Other author/creator	Normandeau, Josette D.
Other author/creator	Priou, Emmanuel.
Other author/creator	Viotte, Michel.
Other author/creator	Bonne Pioche (Firm)
Other author/creator	Filmakers Library, inc.
Other author/creator	France 2 cinéma (Firm)
Other author/creator	Idéacom inc.
Abstract	Navajo soldiers in World War II used their unwritten Native American tongue as an unbreakable code language. Ironically the U.S. military used the Native American language as a potent instrument of war. Successive generations of young Navajo men who fought in the elite division of the U.S. Marine Corps, relate their stories in this film. Reveals how their strong Navajo cultural identity and spiritual references correlated with traditional Marine Corps values and a passionate patriotism.
General note	A co-production France-Canada.
Other forms	Previously released as DVD.
Language	This edition in English and Navajo with English subtitles.
Genre/form	Documentary films.

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