{"id":36300,"date":"2025-03-18T13:52:09","date_gmt":"2025-03-18T13:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/18\/articles-about-native-american-code-talkers-removed-from-military-websites\/"},"modified":"2025-03-18T13:52:09","modified_gmt":"2025-03-18T13:52:09","slug":"articles-about-native-american-code-talkers-removed-from-military-websites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/18\/articles-about-native-american-code-talkers-removed-from-military-websites\/","title":{"rendered":"Articles about Native American code talkers removed from military websites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pages about Native Americans who helped US send messages in world wars removed in Pentagon \u2018DEI\u2019 purge<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2025\/mar\/18\/donald-trump-venezuela-deportations-white-house-immigration-us-politics-live\">US politics live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>More pages honoring diversity in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/us-military\">US military<\/a> history have been removed from defense department websites as the Pentagon undergoes what appears to be a purge of content that it considered to be related to diversity, equity and inclusion \u2013 or DEI.<\/p>\n<p>Articles about the Native American code talkers in the second world war appear to have been removed from military websites, with an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defense.gov\/News\/Feature-Stories\/Story\/Article\/3951611\/deicode-talkers-helped-us-win-world-wars-i-and-ii\/\">error page<\/a> being shown in place of the pages. Internet archive websites show some of the pages were <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20250305181224\/https:\/\/www.defense.gov\/News\/Feature-Stories\/Story\/Article\/3951611\/code-talkers-helped-us-win-world-wars-i-and-ii\/\">still up<\/a> in early March before being taken down. The removal of the pages was first reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/local\/salt-lake-city\/2025\/03\/17\/navajo-code-talkers-trump-dei-military-websites-wwii\">Axios<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/mar\/18\/native-american-code-talkers-dei-military\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pages about Native Americans who helped US send messages in world wars removed in Pentagon \u2018DEI\u2019 purge US politics live \u2013 latest updates More pages honoring diversity in US military history have been removed from defense department websites as the Pentagon undergoes what appears to be a purge of content that it considered to be &#8230; <a title=\"Articles about Native American code talkers removed from military websites\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/18\/articles-about-native-american-code-talkers-removed-from-military-websites\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Articles about Native American code talkers removed from military websites\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}