Keywords: Pueblo Chamber of Commerce president Rod Slyhoff holds a carved prayer staff, honoring a Navajo Code Talker, at a gathering of Native peoples at the Colorado State Fair in Pueblo, Colorado LCCN2015633831.tif 1 photograph digital tiff file color Notes Purchase; Carol M Highsmith Photography Inc ; 2015; DLC/PP-2015 068 ; Forms part of Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M Highsmith Archive ; 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 ; 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 2015 Creator Carol M Highsmith Library of Congress Catalog http //lccn loc gov/2015633831 Image download https //cdn loc gov/master/pnp/highsm/33800/33815a tif Original url http //hdl loc gov/loc pnp/highsm 33815 No known restrictions on publication LOC-image highsm 33815 PD-Highsmith Images uploaded by Fæ Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M Highsmith Archive Pueblo Colorado Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M Highsmith Archive Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Photographs by Carol M Highsmith Colorado State Fair |