Monday Minute (Season 8) Episode 4 - National Code Talker's Day

Throughout much of US history, there was a push to assimilate Native Americans and to discourage them from speaking their native languages. These languages, however, became one of the keys to winning World War II, forming the basis for the only code systems that were not broken during the war.

In 1983, Peter MacDonald, then the chairman of the Navajo Tribal Council, but previously a Navajo Code Talker in the South Pacific during World War II, gifted this large woven rug of the American Flag to President Reagan