Indian Horses
This watercolor pencil drawing was inspired by the rugged terrain we saw as we traveled through the Navajo Nation on our way to the Grand Canyon. The Wendy’s Restaurant had an interesting museum on the Navajo Code Talkers. During World War II, the US Marine Corps recruited Navajo Indians to send and translate top secret messages. Here is a story of one of those men: “Carl Gorman joined the United States Marine Corps in 1942 when he learned they were recruiting Navajos. He went through all of the difficult training and was one of the original 29 Navajos who were given the secret mission of developing the Navajo code. Carl answered one of his officers who had asked why Navajos were able to memorize the complex code so quickly: “For us, everything is memory, it’s part of our heritage. We have no written language. Our songs, our prayers, our stories, they’re all handed down from grandfather to father to children—and we listen, we hear, we learn to remember everything. It’s part of our training.” (Power of a Navajo: Carl Gorman, the Man and His Life, by Henry and Georgia Greenberg,1996) We are so thinkful to all those who served in WWII.
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