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2025 Military History Lecture: Growing Up with Heroes

January 15, -
Speaker(s): Zonnie Gorman

A Daughter's Journey with the Navajo Code Talkers:

Zonnie Gorman is the daughter of the late Dr. Carl Gorman; artist, teacher and one of the original “first twenty-nine” Navajo Code Talkers, the pilot group that devised the initial Navajo code. She is also the youngest sister to the legendary and renowned Navajo artist, the late R.C. Gorman.

Zonnie has lectured extensively about the Navajo Code Talkers throughout the United States and Canada. She has appeared in, and served as consultant to a number of documentaries, including the History Channel documentary, Navajo Code Talkers and the PBS documentary True Whispers.  She has a PhD in History from the University of New Mexico and is a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Center for Southwest Studies at the University of New Mexico.

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