Tuesday/title:Code Talker,chapter1 Sent Away/min:17,pgs:5-11

A boy named Kii Yazhi, is sent to a American school to learn their language. He is an Indian, a Navajo Indian. His parents are devastated that he is leaving with his uncle. Kii Yazhi wants to tell his great grandfather farewell. His grandfather told him that he is small but that Kii has a big heart, he said that because Kii is small and that even his father joked about him on his size. Kii's grandfather was there when the Americans took their land and that the Mexicans took them as slaves, the Mexicans told the Americans that the Indians were bad people but after a while the Americans let the Indians have their land but they had to follow American rules and language. That the Americans sent the Indians at another land when they thought they were bad and some died on the way and most died on the land, the Indians called the land, land of winds because only wind could survive the harsh environment, they couldn't grow food and it was freezing and they had no homes, they had to live in holes. That his dad used a spoon handle as a cradle. When Kii was about to leave, his dad was the most with tears in eyes.