Navajo code talkers - 2023 ACF Nationals

Question

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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Summary


2023 ACF Nationals	04/22/2023	Y	20	16.00	95%	55%	10%

Data


Cornell A	Imperial A	10	10	10	30
Yale B	WUSTL A	10	0	10	20
Chicago B	Iowa State A	10	0	10	20
MIT A	Chicago C	10	0	0	10
Purdue A	Columbia B	10	0	10	20
South Carolina A	Florida A	10	0	10	20
NYU A	Georgia Tech B	10	0	0	10
Virginia A	Johns Hopkins A	10	0	10	20
Minnesota A	Chicago A	10	0	10	20
Ohio State A	Texas A	10	0	0	10
Florida B	Penn State A	10	0	0	10
Rutgers A	Harvard A	10	0	0	10
Rutgers B	WUSTL B	10	0	0	10
Vanderbilt A	Houston A	10	0	0	10
Cornell B	Stanford A	10	0	0	10
Illinois A	Georgia Tech A	0	0	10	10
Duke A	Michigan A	10	10	10	30
Indiana A	Toronto A	10	0	10	20
UC Berkeley B	McGill A	10	0	0	10
Claremont A	Northwestern A	10	0	10	20