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They are (left to right), Tomas Thundershock Monroe, a Navajo, Tiwa, and Choctaw descendant; state fair general manager Chris Wiseman; Pueblo County sheriff Kirk Taylor; police chief Luis Velez; White Mountain Apache tribal member Lance Rivera; Pueblo District Attorney Jeff Chostner; and White Mountain Apache Gilbert Redsleeves. Code talkers are people in the 20th century who used obscure languages as a means of secret communication during wartime. The term is most prominently associated with United States soldiers during the world wars who used their knowledge of Native American languages as a basis to transmit coded messages that the enemy could not decipher.
Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
Gift; Gates Frontiers Fund; 2015; (DLC/PP-2015:068).
Forms part of: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.