The St. Regis Mohawk Tribe has announced that the last surviving World War II Mohawk code talker has died. Levi Oakes was one of 17 Mohawks from the Akwesasne tribe in northern New York that the ...

Louis Levi Oakes, the last of the Mohawk code talkers, who helped American soldiers triumph in the Pacific Theater during World War II, along with code talkers from other tribes, died on May 28 at ...

During World War II, some American paratroopers donned mohawks ... Guy Whidden, a 96-year-old who parachuted into Normandy on D-Day, shaved his mohawk the night before the landings.

ST. REGIS INDIAN RESERVATION, N.Y. — The last of the remaining Mohawk “code talkers” who were belatedly honored for their World War II service has died at age of 94. The WWNY-TV reports that ...