There is a great student essay done by a young lady named Nakita Tsinnie (Dineh) on the Navaho Code Talkers: A Native American Student Essay on the NATIVE_NEWS: Mon, 22 Nov 1999.

Some of Nakita’s facts are used in this final article on the “Code Talkers!”

The interesting part of this is the fact that when this inspiring young Native American girl chose to do her report on “Navajo Code Talkers” her teacher told her that no such program ever existed, That did not deter the young lady and here are some of the facts she brought to the light of day in her report!

Her report begins with this statement;

Native Americans made a large contribution to the United States in World
War II. The United States has given little recognition to Native
Americans who served and fought for their country. The Navaho Code Talkers played an especially important role.

The man who came up with the idea of using Navahos for code talkers was
Philip Johnson (Johnston).  "Philip Johnson was raised on the Navaho
Reservation and when he was nine, he went with his father and two
Navajos to Washington D.C.  Acting as a translator for the adults, he
asked President Theodore Roosevelt for fair treatment of the Navaho and
Hopi nations by the American government."

During the United States' involvement in World War II, Johnson saw the
need for Navaho involvement in the war effort. Johnson knew the Navaho
language was complicated and confusing. In addition, only "two dozen
Non-Navahos understood the language" at that time, the "Navaho language
was not a written language," and the Navaho language does not contain any
alphabet or symbols. 

Another reason the military should use the Navaho nation in World War II was because they had more people who spoke theirnative language, unlike the Comanche and Chippewa nations. 

Johnson then had to prove to Major General Clayton B. Vogel to use the Navaho Code Talkers in World War II by conducting a test. 

"Because the future Navaho Code Talkers could send and decode a 3-line message from Navahoto English in 20 seconds, Major General Vogel approved Johnson's idea.

That same 3-line message would have taken 30 minutes to decode by a
machine." After the successful test, Johnson became the leader of the
code talker program.

Thanks to Nakita for telling the world how the heroic Native Americans that came to be know as Code Talkers actually came to be.