Memorial Day 2021 and Navajo Language Identity

Navajo Code Talker, WWII - Peter MacDonald, Sr

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Navajo Code Talker of World War II, Peter MacDonald, Sr. Memorial Day 2021 Message and thoughts on Language Identity.
For more information on Peter MacDonald, Sr., please visit:
http:www.PeterMacDonaldSr.com
Abbreviated Biography:
Navajo Code Talker and Former Leader of the Navajo Nation
At the age of 15, Peter MacDonald, a Navajo from Teecnospos, AZ, enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps. He went through boot camp at U.S. Marine Corps Recruit Depot (MCRD), San Diego, CA. Following regular combat and communication training at USMCB in Camp Pendleton, CA, MacDonald, along with other Navajo Marines, was secluded from other Marines for top secret Navajo Code School. During the final phase of World War II (1944-46) MacDonald served in South Pacific as Navajo Code Talker and North China with the Sixth Marine Division.
He was honorably discharged with a rank of Corporal. He went back to his home community of Teecnospos, Arizona. After graduation from High School and Junior College in Muskogee, Oklahoma, MacDonald went on to University of Oklahoma and graduated with an Electrical Engineering degree (BSEE). He pursued graduate studies at UCLA while working as a Project Engineer on the Polaris Missile project for (Howard) Hughes Aircraft Company. MacDonald served as Project Manager for the manufacture of the Polaris Missile Guidance System and was a member of the elite Hughes Technical Staff (MTS).
MacDonald has a long list of entrepreneurial endeavors attached to his name. Prominent among his work experience is his service as Chairman of the Navajo Nation from 1971 to 1983 and 1987-91. MacDonald was re-elected to the Office of the Chairman four times-unprecedented in Navajo history. MacDonald is co-founder of the Council of Energy Resource Tribes (CERT), the National Tribal Chairman Association, the American Indian National Bank and the Native American Prep School. MacDonald also worked as Sales and Marketing Director for Cataract Engineering Company, providing engineering service for start-ups of Nuclear Power Plants and overhaul of coal-fired power plants.
Among his many honors are: Recipient of Congressional Silver Medal for heroic service to the nation as a USMC Navajo Code Talker; University of Oklahoma Engineering Hall of Fame and Special Commendation by U.S. President Richard M. Nixon for “exceptional services to others”. Chairman MacDonald also served as a civilian member of USMC Education and Training Board of Directors appointed by the Secretary of Navy. In addition, MacDonald was featured in TIME magazine as one of 200 “Rising Leaders of America” in 1974. He received Honorary Doctorate degrees from the University of Southern Utah in Cedar City and the College of Ganado (AZ). In 1978 he also received the Distinguished Service Citation from the University of Oklahoma--the institution’s highest honor where he also served on the University of Oklahoma Board of Visitors and Bacone College Board of Regents.
MacDonald served on several national task forces and commissions (appointments by Presidents of the United States and Governors of Arizona and New Mexico). He now lectures at schools, colleges and universities, clubs, political organizations, government agencies and businesses. He is married--has five children and nine grandchildren. Currently he lives with his wife, Wanda, on the Navajo reservation at Tuba City, AZ. MacDonald is presently President of the Navajo Code Talkers Association--raising funds to build National Navajo Code Talkers Museum and Veteran Center to honor Heroes of WWII; whose unique legacy, from 1942 thru 1945, helped win the war; transmitting top secret messages in every major battle in the pacific theatre. Navajo Code was the only military code, in modern history, never broken by an enemy.
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11 июн 2021

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Комментарии : 12

@robertlee9634 2 года назад

I very much agree with you Sir Peter McDonald Thank you for sharing and sending message out to the public Very much appreciated

@susanc.leonard6910 2 года назад

I really love your messages and Insights Mr. MacDonald! Also thank you for your service too.

@brianchambless8932 17 дней назад

Yá át ' ééh Brother Peter. I would just like to express my deep appreciation for you taking your most valuable time to share your immense wisdom, knowledge, and ideas of the Diné with the world. May you remain indomitable. May your ideas come to fruition for the betterment of society. May your visions for the future grow and spread like the web of a spider. I will pray softly for this, and play loudly for it as well. God bless 🙏 Ahéhee'

@shawnamanuelito1764 3 года назад

Fabulous share Mr Chairman! Thank you for continuously reaching out to the Navajo people. Your information was insightful and intriguing. Great idea, possible Navajo language classes taught to all ages. Inviting elders to share traditional Navajo stories would be priceless.

@stphaniemariano6530 Год назад

Can't wait for you to share our history in and culture here in our small town here in texas

@nivanelson3129 2 года назад

Thank you for sharing your experience in keeping our Dine language

@normanthomas9234 2 года назад

Thank you very powerful teaching shi'cheii"

@DJB4437 7 месяцев назад

Yes, thank you Chairman. I totally agree with the Navajo Nations Chambers to speak Navajo. The 24 councils need to set an example for us. I struggled with being bi lingual all my life. 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

@mansonkitseallyboy7115 2 года назад

Thank you Chaii that's a good one , you should tell us the story how and why we came up to the new world ,and why a woman can't be a leader and why the twins kill the creatures Thank you Chaii

@user-nt4lt7br3w 9 месяцев назад

Wow

@shirleyfunte3063 Год назад

Your women couldn t pick and take the corn you raised! That would ve made me angry,right there! They herded your people like cattle or sheep into our white schools.I spoke to an our our elderly women ,who lived to be 101 years old a d poor not rich as she originally told me she was. When I caught her in her lies she was surprised that I could see where she and her deceased husband lived in an apartment like I live in. I lived in a house when I was married an Iowa farmer s wife for 14 years saved my money I earned in my own by di oing jobs like poor families had to help when the rich kid s parents bought everything they needed. My par nts had no money to clothe and shod us. You understand what I say is true. I earned my food to eat a meal here and there in school. My parents because we were taught independence from our.parents had to buy our own new clothes or wear larger clothes,not my size of gat I had to grow into. I felt good about earning my own clothes. If you don't use your knowledge you lose it! You re right. My folks never passed on our European family language . I learned some ,but not enough to speak it fluently,like you did. I know nothing of my Great Grand parents past history. It was stuffed away ,but why? My Great Grandparents had only one child,a son ,but why? i learned 2 years of French in highschool and still speak it well. My French teacher was surprised when years later upon my visit to my school,was surprised to approach her by saying hello to her in French. She was French and told me her past students who graduated never returned to thank her for she taught them. I was the only one,as she told me they forgot what they learned. Yes,I m 76 years old born a German,Hungarian, and Czechoslovakian descent. I was told by my mom s cousin in Santa Monica,California that I have an Sioux relation of South Dakota,but when I told my grandma of what I learned she shunned my relation,but why? My Great Grandpa was German from Steitz Germany and I m a Steitz,but never knew one relative of my own country! I ve been lied to to and all of my family of my bat my family did. My mom s dad was from Czechoslovakia and Great Grandma from Hungary as they met eachother at the border and got married. They were leather shoe makers and had a street side shoe store where they made shoes. He was allowed to only bring his tools of his trade with him and nothing else when they came on the ship to America. I m a citizen and recently had to prove I m a native of my own Iowa State. I was taught our Czech songs,but not my Hungarian Hanische songs nor my German ancestry songs. I ve been short changed ....