Philip Johnston demonstrated this group’s importance at Camp Elliot, allowing for the recruitment of the “First 29” during World War II. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this group that sent encrypted “Arizona” and “New Mexico” messages using their Native American tongue.
ANSWER: Navajo code talkers [or Diné code talkers; prompt on Navajo or Diné]
[10h] Many Navajos who tried to enlist in the military were dismissed due to high rates of illiteracy – a phenomenon foreshadowed in this 1928 study that deemed Indian residential schools “grossly inadequate.”
ANSWER: Meriam Report [or The Problem of Indian Administration]
[10m] Oppressive Native American policy was ameliorated by a 1934 “Indian New Deal” named for Burton K. Wheeler and a politician with this surname. A historian with this [emphasize] first name narrated The People Speak, a documentary based on his 1980 survey history of America from the “bottom-up.”
ANSWER: Howard [accept Howard Zinn; accept Wheeler–Howard Act; accept Edgar Howard] (He wrote A People’s History of the United States.)
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