Leaving Home
Who took Ned to the Mission School the first day?
Who is Ned's Uncle
Name at least two islands that Ned fought on
Where is Bougainville, Okinawa, Iwo Jima
What ceremonial dance that Ned and other Navajos sometimes partake in before a battle?
What is a pow wow
What happens to the students when they speak in Navajo?
What is they get their mouths washed out with soap.
This individual died needed Ned to help him read a letter from home.
Who is Georgia Boy.
How was Ned marginalized after coming back from the war?
What is he was not allowed to order a coke in a bar for being Navajo.
To cause great damage and be reduced to fine particles: brutal, pulverize, or bleak?
What is pulverize
At bootcamp, Ned and the other Navajo's enjoyed doing this to their favorite teacher.
What is terrorizing their favorite teacher by fighting in his class and stabbing his tent with bayonets.
This is the only Indian American Marine that helped put up the American flag on Mount Suribachi.
Ira Hayes
Describe the Japanese banzai fighting technique.
What is a Japanese method of charging an opponent, yelling banzai.
What is another name that Ned and other Navajos called America?
What is their sacred motherland
The Japanese were difficult to fight because they did not follow the rules of modern warfare, what did that mean?
What is they did not surrender or retreat, and any prisoners of war were treated poorly.
What did "Tradition is the Enemy of Progress" mean to the teachers at the school?
What is tradition/speaking Navajo will not allow you to learn new things, tradition will hold you back.
Name one of the two Navajo code talkers who trained Ned and his peers at Code School.
Who is John Benally or Johnny Manuelito.
After the U.S. captured Iwo Jima, they erected a flag where?
What is Mt. Suribachi
Ned says the Navajos adjusted to Marine life at boot camp much easier than other men, why?
What is the Navajos were used to being yelled at, hiking long distances and living outside.
What does the A and H stand for in "A-bomb" and "H-bomb"?
What is atomic and hydrogen
What is one way that Ned and other Navajo marines prepare for battle?
What is praying, putting pollen on tip of tongue/nose, performing ceremonial dances, etc.
The first time he met Georgia Boy, what is one thing that Ned learn from that event?
What is 1. Not all white people are born knowing everything, 2. White men are no different from Navajos, 3. No matter who they are people can always learn from eachother.
Name the camp where their Navajo code talking training took place.