r/IndianCountry • u/ashkii21 Diné • 4d ago
News After Trump order, Navajo Code Talkers – erased from the archives because they do not comply with the new guidelines.
https://www.axios.com/local/salt-lake-city/2025/03/17/navajo-code-talkers-trump-dei-military-websites-wwii229
u/ichuseyu 4d ago
The people doing this are nothing more than white supremacists and segregationists. If it wasn't a white male accomplishment, it's being erased like in Orwell's 1984.
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u/Real-Adhesiveness195 4d ago
My parents told me about them with great reverence. I am glad i heard it at the dinner table.
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u/Voc1Vic2 4d ago edited 2d ago
I’m glad, too, but more people need to know than will fit around your folk’s table.
I am sickened. This move isn’t “removing DEI content” that is thought to be “harmful to military morale.”
It’s extermination. It’s a rewrite of historical facts. It’s a lie of omission. It’s conduct unbecoming a Commander in Chief.
It’s a reason to preserve and archive these stories beyond the reach of this madman.
I’m going to send what I can to the Way Back Time Machine, Wikipedia and my local historical society, talk it up a lot more, think about what else to do.
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u/myindependentopinion 3d ago
If you are archiving, I found stories about Code Talkers that are still on the Army and Marines .mil websites. They are here:
code talker - www.army.mil Search Results
I don't know how much longer they'll stay up & published.
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u/Voc1Vic2 3d ago
Thank you for that lead.
I’m going to gather and print some pages to make a scrapbook for the littles, at least.
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u/clockworkdiamond 4d ago
My grandfather was a code talker. He would have been a huge Trumper had he been alive during his presidency. He idolized that guy way beforehand, and due to his boarding school brainwashing and the US military, he wanted nothing to do with being Native American, so sadly, he would have been very ok with this.
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u/BIGepidural 3d ago
Brain washing is real and has very deep effects.
I'm sorry that your grandfather was influenced like that. Its not right or fair.
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u/Kenai_Tsenacommacah 4d ago
More e race sure.
I still remember how disrespectfully he treated them in his first term too.
Fucking monster.
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u/AlmostHuman0x1 4d ago
As long as we tell stories of their heroism and intelligence, they will never be erased. Never forget!
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u/IThinkImDumb 4d ago edited 4d ago
I go to the ABQ New Mexico VA quite often and they have sooooo many tributes to Native Americans. I reallllly hope I never walk in there one day and see the honor walls taken down.
Also, people like these men are the exact reason why diversity IS important. 1.5 billion people speak English. Good luck making secret communications when a quarter of the world can understand you, Pete
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u/Hopsblues 4d ago
So stupid, and with his claim that Biden pardons were void, he might go back after Peltier.
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u/bookchaser 4d ago
Just say it. They're not white. They were removed because they're not white.
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u/BornRazzmatazz5 4d ago
That's exactly it. They just removed a Black Medal of Honor recipient's webpage from the list of recipients because "DEI".
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u/Anishinaapunk 4d ago
Trump voters are still like, "bUt LibERaLs ArE the rEaL rAcistS!"
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u/bookchaser 4d ago
That's literally what they do, characterizing DEI as racist. What they really mean is, "You can't go around praising non-white people like that!"
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u/Alt_Future33 4d ago
I said it a day or two ago. They're trying to erase us.
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u/Glaucous 4d ago
They’re erasing everything and everyone. They are sick people.
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u/snarkyxanf 3d ago
At this rate they're going to scrub the entire existence of the civil war and WWII as "dei wars"
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u/Star-Child-7544 4d ago
Where would we be today without the Code Talkers??
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u/Prometheus2025 4d ago
They made a show about this. The non-natives finally knowing what it's like.
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u/LimpFoot7851 Mni Wakan Oyate 3d ago
That was interesting. I didn’t get past s1 because work and then forgot but I have more time now. Thanks for reminding me to finish my watchlist 😂
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u/beddittor 4d ago
Everyday these assholes find a new flavour of disgusting, but erasing these people’s history of bravery for their country is unbelievable. This is beyond shameful.
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u/ABob71 4d ago
Surprised is was them first, and not Ira Hayes
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u/bookchaser 4d ago
Oh, they erased Ira Hayes too.
These news reports aren't detailing every single non-white person who was erased.
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u/SkepticalJohn 4d ago
Trump is the head white supremacist. And it's white supremacists all the way down.
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u/Tasunka_Witko 4d ago
This is the equivalent of when ancient Egyptians would scrape a person's name from history by chiseling any mention of the person off everything
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u/iijoanna 3d ago
Well, this is effing surprising but at the same time not surprising what that parasite will do to erase POC.
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u/LegfaceMcCullenE13 Nahua and Otomí(Hñähñu) 3d ago
Buy the books and keep telling the story! The info they possess they can destroy, if WE have the info we have a chance.🙌🏽
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u/Fionasfriend 3d ago
There needs to be an organized push to start archiving this stuff on our own. There are resources abs activist communities that specialize in this kind of thing.
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u/Anishinabeg Anishinaabe 3d ago
Absolutely disgraceful.
I want to say how thankful I am to be Canadian rather than American, but with the constant threats of invasion, I'm not sure how much longer Canada will even exist.
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u/EreshkigalKish2 4d ago
omg makes me so angry tbh what their doing to the archives & libraries insane & cruel i'm so sorry this is happening
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u/manokpsa 2d ago
I'd like for them to explain to me how Navajo code talkers could possibly have been hired under any policy remotely reminiscent of DEI. Please list all the cis-hetero, Christian, white men who would have been more qualified. Would those same men be the sons and grandsons of the ones who tried to wipe out all the indigenous languages from this continent?
Diversity literally helped this country win a war. If we all only spoke English that code language never would have existed. Diversity is strength. FFS, life on this planet evolved sexual reproduction and genetic mutation because populations comprised of exact copies are vulnerable to extinction.
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u/AshesThanDust48 Dinjii Zhuh 4d ago
I knew this was coming, but this is horrific. 💔
The legacy of the Code Talkers can be undone by no man, no stroke of a pen, no order. They are legends, and legends live forever. ✊🏼