I am writing to see where to start with my husband's family history. Mother's last name is Hathale and father's last name is Jim. I've found some on the Hathale family (Roger and Dinah Hathale) but I am stuck as to where to go from here. Any advice and/or information would be GREAT!

Thanks so much!
Heather

Hello, I'm from Mariano Lake, NM. I live in South Dakota. I am currently attending college and we are doing a Family Tree related to my class. I have information on my fathers mothers side. I still need my greatgrand father. I need more information on my mother's side of the family. My mother is 92 she gave me some information, but not much. I just want to know where to get all the information. Who do i asked?

Thanks,
Juanita Y.

Father's name is Virgel Dino Martinez. Mother Ida Mae Martinez. How do I go about finding family?

Dear Code Talkers,

It was only two weeks ago that I discovered you. I am nearly sixty years old and had never heard your story. I want to help bring about the recognition you deserve as well as add a new thought to your story. I would be most grateful to work with someone to spread your story. Thank you for who you are and the honor you brought to our nation.

I honor you,
Gail

Dear Sirs,

I'm looking for contact details (e-mail address, if possible) of two Navajo people:

1. Dr. Fred Begay: http://www.lapahie.com/Fred_Young.cfm
2. Norman Blackwater: I was in touch with him and his wife Joanne Teller years ago (she passed away); the are authors from Chinle, owning a small publishing house named Infinity Horn. I cannot find the weabsite, anymore.

Could you please kindly help me?

Kind regards
Paolo Pagella - Italy

Dear Sir, or Ma'am,

I am working on my Historiography paper which is about the role of the Navajo Code Talkers in WWII. I would like to know if there are any Code Talkers still alive today and would it be possible to set up a phone interview? I am a Social Science major at Blue Mountain College, Ms. I would appreciate any help you may give.

Thank You,
Tina Page

I am Dine' (Navajo enrolled - Shiprock agency) and Mdewakanton-Wahpeton Dakotah Oyate (Sioux). I live in Myrtle Beach South Carolina.

My father was Dine' and Dakotah and he was in the military and we were stationed at Myrtle Beach Air Force Base in 1966. My father grew up on the Navajo Rez and because my Navajo grandmother was first married to a Pueblo she lived at Santa Clara after her first husband passed on. She met my grandfather who was Dakotah and together they had two children and so my dad grew up at the pueblo too.

I know stories about my family Navajo and Dakotah Sioux family history. When I was a child, we would go to the Navajo Rez to visit and we also have family in Albuquerque. They are the Navajo and Pueblo grandchildren of my Navajo grandmother. They were not allowed to visit often with our grandmother because she married my grandfather (who was Dakotah Sioux). Visits were so infrequent with her that they never established a bond with her. Without going into too much detail about the estrangement this marriage caused (between my Navajo grandmother and my Dakotah Sioux grandfather), I hope you understand that I am not wanting to imply anything negative. I still keep in contact with my (Navajo-Pueblo) cousins in Albuquerque and they do not know anything about our grandmother's people on the Navajo Rez. They claim that no one is left.

I inherited through my father (after his death) his IIM account. I inherited a small piece of land in New Mexico and according to the land inventory sheet, there are relatives, because of the division of the land from the original allottee up to the present day descendants.

I tried in the past to locate family on the Navajo Rez and went so far as to have a "looking for family" letter published in the Navajo Times. I have been on this search for 7 years and I have had no luck.

I do not know if they would even want to have anything to do with me. I have gotten the impression from my cousins in Albuquerque that even though I want to visit with them, because they are getting older, they do not want to commit to a date. I have finally given up on ever seeing them again. But I have not given up on finding my grandmother's family.

I was not close to anyone from my Dakotah Sioux grandfather's family, until last year. I spent 6 years looking for them, I wanted to tell them that my father has passed on. I had no luck from BIA or DOI with locating them, even though I had an evidentuary hearing here in South Carolina. The judge said he could not help me find them. Well through perseverance, I found them. And they always wondered what happened to my grandfather.

He left South Dakota with his first wife and children and never returned. Until I found them they did not know I existed and that I have three children and one grandchild. I am going to be with them in South Dakota for two weeks and mutually we are all glad that the wondering is over with.

I will never stop looking for my grandmother's family. I have pictures from the late 1800's-1940's of my Navajo and Dakotah family. Sometimes this helps. I will provide you with names (in hopes that you can help me). I even went so far as to subscribe to Ancestry.com to view the Navajo censuses with no luck. Another mystery is one of my Navajo/Pueblo cousin's worked at BIA Headquarters in Albuquerque and even he could not help me (he retired two years ago).

My name is Elizabeth Carol Robertson
My father: Mark Francis Robertson
My grandmother: Helen Hutton (maiden name)then she married a Pueblo who's last name was Naranjo. They had several children and the one who survived to adulthood was William Naranjo. She then married my grandfather James Wabashaw Robertson. When she died she was Helen Hutton Robertson. She was a girl's dorm supervisor in the Indian boarding schools.

My grandfather James was a musician and was a band instructor. He was employed with the schools in New Mexico and I think in Arizona, because I have the diploma from one of his children from his first marriage and she attended Apache County Schools.

My father did state that his half brother, from his mother's first marriage never accepted him or his little sister (her name was Marrietta Louise Robertson). My father's half brother (William Naranjo) never forgave his mother for marrying a Sioux.

I can provide you with much more detailed information, birthdates, CIB numbers, death dates etc. Let me know if you can help.

A Dakotah cousin of mine told me that so many federal lawsuits keep us apart. He said that the BIA and DOI could have helped me find my Dakotah family but that the lawsuits and the number of plaintiffs keep growing and growing.

I am not into money, my father brought me up as traditional as possible. I still have my "first walk" moccasin's he had made for me and I would always go with him to the foothills of the South Carolina mountains and to a waterfall where he would sing Navajo Prayer Songs, he learned from his Navajo grandfather, who was a Medicine Man. He told me always that as long as my children were happy and we had a roof over our heads and food to eat and I got up to greet the dawn and run towards the rising sun (only now I walk) that I would be happy. He told me never live beyond my means and to give thanks ever morning, during the day and at the end of the day and my family would have what they needed. He said when we want too much and we are not satisfied with what we have and we want more we make ourselves and our families miserable (unbalanced and we would be sick).

Let me know if you can help.

Thank You
Beth Robertson

I fly my N.M. state flag every Aug 14th in honor of the Code Talkers. I feel a sense of pride in that folks from my state made a difference. Losing so many of them ----- I keep articles in a brochure I received from an eldely gentleman in Old Town a few years ago. I found your entry on this site to be most interesting.

Hi my name is Silke. I just want to say that I love your side. Please go on like this. I will be back soon.

Silke

Harrison,

My name is John Lewis and I have a printing business in Alb. and would like to speak with you about printing a Navajo calendar. I would like to collaborate with you on the calendar and make it free to the public or even talk about selling them as a possibility. I was also responsible for getting the land for the Code Talkers from Chevron and I have the plan for the whole project. I would like to speak with you about both projects if you would give me a call. You can call me at;

John C. Lewis, President
Southwest Native Consultants, Inc.
Southwest Native Graphics and Printing, LLC
505-730-3222

Hello!

Happy 2010 to your and yours!

Big plans for this new year?

Chau.

Cheryl S.

Dear Mr. Harrison Lapahie and Ms. Nilda Lapahie,

Thank you for taking the time to read this email. I will be reading and teaching Code Talkers with my tenth grade English II classes upon our return from Christmas break. I will be using your web page to help give background information in getting us started. I'm open to any suggestions you might have in terms of making human and literary connections. I'd like to expose my students to audio and visual representations of Navajo culture. I currently have on order a DVD called "Navajo Code Talkers." Again, any other resources you suggest would be appreciated.

With respect and gratitude,
Anna Crociata
Zephyrhills High School
Zephyrhills,
Florida

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