Now that you've prepared your exhibition, give your exhibit a title and a brief introduction. Your introduction will appear at the beginning of the exhibit. It should tell the visitor what the exhibit is about and why it's important.

 

Conduct additional research on the Navajo code talkers to help you curate the exhibition. The following sites may be helpful. Along with your introduction, be sure to list all sources that you used to find your information.

1)Interview with Code Talker Joe Hosteen Kellwood

2)Navajo Code Talkers

3)American Indian Words: Code Talking: National Museum of the American Indian

In your introduction, you should first explain the nature of the code talkers.

Ask yourself these question and find the answer:

• Who they were?
• What kind of people was chosen for this task?
• Why they were so important?

Once you answered these questions, you can concentrate your explanation on the Navajo contribution as code talkers in WWII. Actually, your main task in this introduction is attempt to explain why the Navajo people were the better choice for this job.

To do so, and using the three sources you give, you can find precious information. But to introduce, you can say that the Navajo Code Talkers were successful because they provided a fast, secure and error-free line of communication by telephone and radio during World War II in the Pacific. The 29 initial recruits developed an unbreakable code, and they were successfully trained to transmit the code under intense conditions. Or something of your wish.

Take a look:

• Interview with Code Talker Joe Hosteen Kellwood

You should provide a brief introduction about him, just the necessity. Then concentrate your analyse in the interview. I don't know if this interview was recorded or transcripted (you didn't give the link), but you can extract the following:

1 - What was his contribution on the war?

2 - What was the process of recruitment?

3 - What was the nature of the code?

4 - Why the Navajo people was able to perform this task?

You'll find the answers in the interview and would be interesting to see the point of view from someone who saw and witness the moment.

1)For the other two sources - Navajo Code Talkers and American Indian Words: Code Talking: National Museum of the American Indian - you can split into a one single idea.

Explain who was the Navajo Code Talkers - in this case, we are talking about the military division - and their contribution. (yeah, it's repetitive but important). And then, to finish, you can write about the Museum, explaining the importance to preserve the memory of these war heroes.