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Quiet! English only!” The dark eyes of a matron bored into me. “English, or you’ll be punished.” I wonder what she said?
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Chester Nez (Code Talker: The First and Only Memoir By One of the Original Navajo Code Talkers of WWII)
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We Navajos believe in witchcraft. Cut hair and fingernail clippings should be gathered and hidden or burned. Such things could be used to invoke bad medicine against their owner. People should not leave parts of themselves scattered around to be picked up by someone else. Even the smallest children knew that.
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Chester Nez (Code Talker: The First and Only Memoir By One of the Original Navajo Code Talkers of WWII)