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- Kenji Kawano is perhaps best known for his photographs of the Navajo code talkers recruited by the Marines to communicate military orders in their own language in World War II, baffling the Japanese.
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Jan 28, 2024 · Kenji Kawano has been photographing the Navajo code talkers, America's secret weapon during WWII, for 50 years. It all started in 1975 with a chance encounter that would take over his life.
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Jun 25, 2015 · Kenji Kawano is perhaps best known for his photographs of the Navajo code talkers recruited by the Marines to communicate military orders in their own language in World War II, baffling the...
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The Navajo Code Talkers were formed in 1942 when 29 Navajo men joined the U.S. Marines and developed an unbreakable codethat would be used across the Pacific during World War II. The Code Talkers participated in all assaults the U.S. Marines led in the Pacific from 1942 to 1945, including Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Peleliu and Iwo Jima. The Code Talkers ...
Kawano is known for his photographs of the Code Talkers, a photo journey he began in 1975. "I was hitchhiking back to Ganado from Window Rock and one Navajo guy and his wife drove by to pick me up," Kawano said. The guy that picked him up was Carl Gorman, one of the original 29 Navajo Code Talkers. Kawano said Gorman asked him where he was coming f...
Kawano said he found 72 Code Talkers on the Navajo Nation and was able to take pictures of each of them. Some he knew from the association but others he had a hard time finding because the Navajo Nation is large, and his resources were limited. He spent a lot of time on the road looking for them, and when he found them, he'd often leave his camera ...
During the exhibit opening, Ronald said they will have posters and business cards signed by his dad for anyone available for people at the event. The "Navajo Code Talkers, Through the Lens of Kenji Kawano" exhibit will be on display Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Navajo Nation Museum in Window Rock, continuing into 2022. Kawano ...
The Navajo Nation hosts an annual celebration for Navajo Code Talkers Day each year in Window Rock, but due to the pandemic, the Office of the Navajo Nation President and Vice President will host a virtual celebration on Saturday. The Navajo Nation event will honor and pay tribute to all Navajo Code Talkers, their families, and communities. The eve...
- Shondiin Silversmith
- Indigenous Affairs Reporter
I first met Kenji Kawano in 1976, young man who came to the Navajo Nation in search of an adventure and see the “Indians” known as Navajos.
Mar 17, 2022 · For nearly 50 years, Kenji Kawano has been photographing the Navajo Code Talkers of World War II throughout America's southwest. "It became my life's work," Kawano said. It's a lifelong project that began with a ride from a stranger while hitchhiking on the Navajo Nation.
- Meg Hilling
- Meg.Hilling@scripps.com
About Kenji. I have been photographing the Navajo since 1974, documenting their lives and culture. I have since published four books and have taken thousands of photographs. I hope you enjoy looking through my portfolios and my web site.
Aug 4, 2011 · Japanese photographer Kenji Kawano, born in Fukuoka in 1949, was not yet born when a group of modern-day Navajo warriors, known as the Code Talkers, defied Japanese intelligence during World War II.
