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

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

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

Former Marine Lance Corporal Manuel Valenzuela, right, a member of the Jumano Native American Tribe, and his son, Isaac Valenzuela, 12, photographed in Pueblo, Colorado, at a gathering of North American Native People. The Valenzuelas hold a banner supporting an organization that Manuel and his broth

Tino Trujillo, left, of Pueblo, Colorado, and Skuya Fast Horse of Fort Frances, Ontario, who were among the participants at a Colorado Springs Native American Inter-Tribal Powwow and festival in that central Colorado city Physical description:. Notes: Trujill

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

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

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

David Johnson, photographed in Pueblo, Colorado, at a gathering of North American Native People, is a member of the Apache Nation Physical description:. Notes: Johnson says: "Native culture was suppressed in government school, traditions lost and found. Ances