Choctaw Code Talkers

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Lesson Plan, Viewer Discussion Guide
Choctaw Code Talkers

In 1918, not yet citizens of the United States, Choctaw Tribal members of the American Expeditionary Forces were asked to use their Native language as a powerful tool against the German Forces in World War I setting a precedent for code talking as an effective military tool and establishing them as America’s original code talkers.

Co-produced by Red-Horse Native Productions, Inc., Valhalla Motion Pictures and Native American Public Telecommunications, Inc. (NAPT), Choctaw Code Talkers will transport viewers back to World War I for an intimate and engaging look into the lives of these brave men, their families, their dreams and their patriotism to a country who would remember them as heroes, but not until after their death.

Educational Tools

Choctaw Code Talkers Viewer Discussion Guide Choctaw Code Talkers Viewer Discussion Guide (PDF - 2.6 MB)
Choctaw Code Talkers Lesson Plan - Grades 7-Higher Education Choctaw Code Talkers Lesson Plans - Grades 7-Higher Education (PDF - 50.7 MB)
AudioProducer Profile with Valerie Red-Horse (Cherokee and Sioux), Producer, Choctaw Code Talkers (MP3 - 14.0 MB)

 

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Subject: 
Ethnic Studies, Native American Studies, Reading & Language Arts, Social Studies
Grade Level: 
Grades 7-9, Grades 9-12, Higher Ed, General