PHOENIX — Navajo Nation officials ordered evacuations Sunday for some residents of Chinle after floodwaters filled washes and overflowed berms and dirt dams. “Our priority is life,” Patrick ...

Sandoval takes part in a ceremony where the Oreland C. Joe Code Talker sculpture was unveiled at the Navajo Nation Fairgrounds in Window Rock, Ariz., in 2004. After Sandoval’s death, only three ...

Returning home to the Navajo Nation By 1943, Sandoval's family lost most of their livestock as part of the fallout from the Navajo Livestock reduction program from the 1930s, which is when the U.S ...

Samuel Sandoval, one of the last surviving Navajo Code Talkers who served during World War II, died Friday, according to a release from the Navajo Nation. CNN values your feedback 1.

Samuel Sandoval, one of the Navajo Nation's heroic WWII code talkers, has died. He was 98. Sandoval's death was confirmed to the Associated Press on Saturday by his wife Malula.

The Navajo men are celebrated annually on Aug. 14. Samuel Sandoval was looking forward to that date and seeing a museum built near the Navajo Nation capital of Window Rock to honor the Code ...

Sandoval was one of the hundreds of Navajos who were recruited from the vast Navajo Nation to help transmit messages in World War II for the Marine Corps. Only three are still alive today.