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Last June a caravan of cars pulled into the Black Hills National Cemetery near Sturgis, S.D., to lay Clarence Wolf Guts, the last surviving Lakota Sioux code talker of World War II, to rest. In September, Allen Dale June, one of the original Navajo code talkers also passed away. While the Navajo are the best known, 15 other Indian tribes were also involved in the use of Indian languages in the top-secret code project, which began unofficially during World War I. Though declassified in 1968, their stories are still little known.

By Ed Hooper November 10, 2010