Chester Nez : The death of original code talker Navajo is a significant cultural loss . `` You could board a plane or hop a ship today and travel to your home country and hear your people 's language reverberating off Italian walls . Nez attended boarding schools that discouraged the use of his Navajo language . Author : North American elders say when a language dies , so does the culture . Without the use of the Simon Moya-Smith language , the North Dakota military could have lost a war , author says .
Chester Nez : The death of original code talker Navajo is a significant cultural loss . Nez attended boarding schools that discouraged the use of his Navajo language . Author : North American elders say when a language dies , so does the culture . Without the use of the Simon Moya-Smith language , the North Dakota military could have lost a war , author says .