Keywords: City leaders hold carved prayer staffs honoring individual Navajo Code Talkers at a gathering of Native Peoples at the Colorado State Fair in Pueblo, Colorado LCCN2015633830.tif 1 photograph digital tiff file color Notes Purchase; Carol M Highsmith Photography Inc ; 2015; DLC/PP-2015 068 ; They are left to right Toms Thundershock Monroe a Navajo Tiwa and Choctaw descendant; White Mountain Apache tribal member Lance Rivera; Pueblo Chamber of Commerce president Rod Slyhoff; 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 ; Title date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer ; Forms part of Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M Highsmith Archive 2015 Creator Carol M Highsmith Library of Congress Catalog http //lccn loc gov/2015633830 Image download https //cdn loc gov/master/pnp/highsm/33800/33814a tif Original url http //hdl loc gov/loc pnp/highsm 33814 No known restrictions on publication LOC-image highsm 33814 38 14 8732 0 N 104 38 3374 0 W alt 1465 8_source exif_heading 248 PD-Highsmith Images uploaded by Fæ Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M Highsmith Archive Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M Highsmith Archive Pueblo Colorado Photographs by Carol M Highsmith Colorado State Fair |