3615) Ponca Tribe, Code Talker, United States of America (USA): A Bronze Medal commemorates an important piece of World War I and World War II and American history: Date/Year of Medal issue: 2024:
A code talker was a person employed by the military
during wartime to use a little-known language as a means of secret
communication.
The term is most often used for United States service members
during the World Wars who used their knowledge of Native American languages as
a basis to transmit coded messages.
In particular, there were approximately 400
to 500 Native Americans in the United States Marine Corps whose primary job was
to transmit secret tactical messages.
Code talkers transmitted messages over military
telephone or radio communications nets using formally or informally developed
codes built upon their Indigenous languages.
The code talkers improved the
speed of encryption and decryption of communications in front line operations
during World War II and are credited with some decisive victories. Their code
was never broken.
There were two code types used during World War II:
- Type
one codes were formally developed based on the languages of the Comanche, Hopi,
Meskwaki, and Navajo peoples.
They used words from their languages for each
letter of the English alphabet. Messages could be encoded and decoded by using
a simple substitution cipher where the ciphertext was the Native language word.
Type two code was informal and directly translated from English into the
Indigenous language. Code talkers used short, descriptive phrases if there was
no corresponding word in the Indigenous language for the military word.
For
example, the Navajo did not have a word for submarine, so they translated it as
iron fish.
The term Code Talker was originally coined by the United
States Marine Corps and used to identify individuals who completed the special
training required to qualify as Code Talkers.
Their service records indicated
"642 – Code Talker" as a duty assignment.
Today, the term Code Talker
is still strongly associated with the bilingual Navajo speakers trained in the
Navajo Code during World War II by the US Marine Corps to serve in all six
divisions of the Corps and the Marine Raiders of the Pacific theatre.
However,
the use of Native American communicators pre-dates WWII. Early pioneers of
Native American-based communications used by the US Military include the
Cherokee, Choctaw, and Lakota peoples during World War I.
Today the term
Code Talker includes military personnel from all Native American communities
who have contributed their language skills in service to the United States.
Other Native American communicators—now referred to as
code talkers—were deployed by the United States Army during World War II,
including Lakota, Meskwaki, Mohawk, Comanche, Tlingit, Hopi, Cree, and Crow
soldiers; they served in the Pacific, North African, and European theatres.
The Medal/Coin:
The Ponca Tribe Code Talkers Bronze Medal commemorates an
important piece of World War II and American history.
This medal is a bronze duplicate of the Congressional
Gold Medal awarded to Ponca Tribe Code Talkers at a ceremony at the U.S.
Capitol Building on November 20, 2013, in recognition of their dedication and
valour.
The Reverse design of the Code Talker Ponca Medal features two Code Talkers in action
with Chief White Eagle, a respected leader of the Ponca Tribe, in the
background. It is inscribed “PONCA TRIBE CODE TALKERS.”
The Obverse design of the Code Talker Ponca Medal features a variation of the Ponca
Tribe seal, which consists of three clustered tipis with the sun behind them.
Inscriptions are “ACT OF CONGRESS 2008,” “WORLD WAR I” and “WORLD WAR II.”
Native American Coin Series:
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4) "Creek" Culture and History, United States of America (USA): A set of six Native American Coins featuring different Tribes minted by the Torrance, California-based Native American Mint which struck a series of Indian Sovereign Nations coins that are authorised by each Tribe: Date/Year of Coin set issue: 2024
5) "Pueblo" Culture and History, United States of America (USA): A set of six Native American Coins featuring different Tribes minted by the Torrance, California-based Native American Mint which struck a series of Indian Sovereign Nations coins that are authorised by each Tribe: Date/Year of Coin Set issue: 2024
6) "Choctaw" Culture and History, United States of America (USA): A set of six Native American Coins featuring different Tribes minted by the Torrance California-based Native American Mint whic h struck a series of Indian Sovereign Nations Coins that are authorised by each Tribe: Date/Year of Coin set issue: 2024
7) "Mohican" Culture and History, United States of Americs (USA): A set of six Native American Coins featuring different Tribes minted by the Torrance, California-based Native American Mint which struck a series of Indian Sovereign Nations coins that are authorised by each Tribe: Date/Year of Coin issue: 2022
8) Native American Coin Sets - "Shawnee, Arapaho, Susquehannock, Mohican, Chippewa and Cheyenne" Culture and History, United States of America (USA): A set of six Native American Coins fesaturing diffferent Tribes minted by the Torrance California-based Native American Mint which struck a series of Indian Sovereign Nations Coins that are authorised by each Tribe: Date/Year of Coin Set issue: 2022
9) "Navaho" Culture and History, United States of America (USA): A set of six Native American Coins featuring different Tribes minted by the Torrance California-based Native American Mint which struck a series of Indian Sovereign Nations coins that are authorised by each Tribe: Date/Year of Coin issue: 2021
10) "Cherokee" Culture and History, United States of America (USA): A set of six Native American Coins featuring different Tribes minted by the Torrance, California-based Native American Mint which strusk a series of Indian Sovereign Nations Coins that are authorised by each Tribe: Date/Year of Coin Set issued: 2021
11) "Comanche" Culture and History, United States of America (USA): A set of six Natibve American Coins featuring different Tribes minted by the Torrance, California-based Native American Mint which struck a series of Indian Sovereign Nations coins that are authorised by each Tribe: Date/Year of Coin Set issue: 2019
12) "Caddo" Culture and History. United States of America (USA): A set of six Native American Coins featuring different Tribes minted by the Torrance, California-based Native American Mint whbich struck a series of Indian Sovereign Nations Coins that are authorised by each Tribe: Date/Year of Coin Set issue: 2021
13) "Eskimo" Culture and History, United States of America (USA): A set of six Native American Coins featuring different Tribes minted by the Torrance, California-based Native American Mint which struck a series of Indian Sovereign Nations Coins that are authorised by each Tribe: Date/Year of Coin Set issue: 2021
14) "Apache" Culture and History, United States of American (USA): A set of six Native American Coins featuring different Tribes minted by the Torrance, California-based Native American Mint which struck a series of Indian Sovereign Nations Coins that are authorised by each Tribe: Date/Year of Coin Sets issue: 2021
15) "Chinook" Culture and History, United States of America (USA): A set of six Native American Coins featuring different Tribes minted by the Torrance, California-based Native American Mint which struck a series of Indian Sovereign Nations coins that are authorised by each Tribe: Date/Year of Coin Set issue: 2021
16) "Seminole" Culture and History, United States of America (USA): A set of six Native American Coins featuring different Tribes minted ny the Torrance, California-based Native American Mint which struck a series of Indian Sovereign Nations Coins that are authorised by each Tribe: Date/Year of Coin set issue: 2019
17) "Blackfoot" Culture and History, United Stat6es of America (USA): A set of six Native American Coins feasturing different Tribes minted by the Torrance, California-based Native American Mint which struck a series of Indian Sovereign Nations Coins that are authorised by each Tribe: Date/Year of Coin Set issue: 2021
18) "Fox" Culture and History, United States of America (USA): A set of six Native American Coins festuring different Tribes minted by the Torrance, California-based Native American Mint which struck a series of Indian Sovereign Nations Coins that are authorised by each Tribe: Date/Year of Coin set issue: 2021
19) "Sioux" Culture and History, United States of America (USA): A set of six Native American Coins featuring different Tribes minted by the Torrance, Californis-based Native American Mint which struck a series of Indian Sovereign Natiomns Coins that are authorised by each Tribe: Date/Year of Coin Set issue: 2021
Native American - Code Talkers serving in World War I and World War II:
1) Ponca Tribe, Code Talker, United States of America (USA): A Bronze Medal commemorates an important piece of World War I and World War II and American History: Date/Year of Medal issue: 2024
2) St. Regis Mohawk Tribe, Code Talker, United States of America (USA): A Bronze Medal commemorates an important piece of World War I and World War II and American History: Date/Year of Medal issue: 2024
3) Oglala Sioux Tribe, Code Talker, United States of America (USA): A Bronze Medal commemorates an important piece of World War II and American History: Date/Year of Medal issue: 2024
4) Comanche Nation Tribe, Code Talker, United States of America (USA): A Bronze Medal commemorates an important piece of World War I and World War II and American History: Date/Year of Medal issue: 2024
Coin Invest Trust (CIT) Wild West Coin Series:
1) Wild Bill Hickok, Calamity Jane, Billy the Kid - Legends of the Wild West!, Cook Islands: 250 Dollars (Gold) and 20 and 5 Dollars (Silver) Coins minted by B.H. Mayer's Kunstprageanstalt (GmbH) at its facilities in Munich by commission of Coin Invest Trust (CIT) on behalf of the Treasury of the Cook Islands: Year of Coin issue: 2024
Links to posts on this blog on Coins issued under "American Innovation $1 Coin Programme":
Links to posts on the USA:
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