City leaders hold carved prayer staffs honoring individual Navajo Code Talkers at a gathering of Native Peoples at the Colorado State Fair in Pueblo, Colorado Physical description:. Notes: They are (left to right), Tomas Thundershock Monroe, a Navajo, Tiwa, a

City leaders hold carved prayer staffs honoring individual Navajo Code Talkers at a gathering of Native Peoples at the Colorado State Fair in Pueblo, Colorado Physical description:. Notes: Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2015; (DLC/PP-2015:068

Toms Thundershock Monroe, a Navajo, Tiwa, and Choctaw descendant, carries a prayer staff honoring Armando E. Trujillo, a former Bataan "Death March" survivor in World War Two; and Ret. U.S. Marine Lance Corporal Manuel Valenzuela, a member of the Jumano Native American Tribe, holds Mr. Trujillo's ve

Pueblo Chamber of Commerce president Rod Slyhoff holds a carved prayer staff, honoring a Navajo Code Talker, at a gathering of Native peoples at the Colorado State Fair in Pueblo, Colorado Physical description:. Notes: Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography

Tomas Thundershock Monroe of Pueblo, Colorado, who described his tribe as "Apache Choctaw Navajo mix," was among the participants at a Colorado Springs Native American Inter-Tribal Powwow and festival in that central Colorado city Physical description:. Notes

Harkin Lucero, Jr., a celebrated professional artist and scuptor, photographed in Pueblo, Colorado, at a gathering of Native People Physical description:. Notes: Mr. Lucero, who is of Navajo descent, is holding a photograph, taken by famed western artist and

Members of the Northern Wind Dancers from Pueblo, Colorado, at a Colorado Springs Native American Inter-Tribal Powwow and festival in that central Colorado city: rear left to right, Jarod Figueroa and his father, Raul Figueroa Physical description:. Notes: Pu

American photographer Carol M. Highsmith photographs George Free Spirit Medina, a member of the Oglala Sioux tribe, in Pueblo, Colorado, at a gathering of North American Native People Physical description:. Notes: Mr. Medina is a great-great-great grandson of

Former Marine Lance Corporal Manuel Valenzuela, a member of the Jumano Native American Tribe, photographed with family members in Pueblo, Colorado, at a gathering of North American Native People Physical description:. Notes: With him, l to r, are his children