Simon Moya-Smith : The death of original code talker Chester Nez is a significant cultural loss . Nez attended boarding schools that discouraged the use of his Navajo language . Author : David McCullough Richard Pratt famously read from a paper at an 1892 convention . ` Without the use of the Navajo language , the U.S. military could have lost a war , author says .
Simon Moya-Smith : The death of original code talker Chester Nez is a significant cultural loss . Nez attended boarding schools that discouraged the use of his Navajo language . Author : David McCullough Without the use of the Navajo language , the U.S. military could have lost a war , author says .