{"id":87576,"date":"2019-05-31T10:44:18","date_gmt":"2019-05-31T14:44:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=87576"},"modified":"2019-05-31T10:44:18","modified_gmt":"2019-05-31T14:44:18","slug":"last-surviving-mohawk-code-talker-from-wwii-louis-levi-oakes-dies-at-94","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=87576","title":{"rendered":"Last surviving Mohawk code talker from WWII, Louis Levi Oakes, dies at 94"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/last-code-talker-e1559312897567.png\" alt=\"last code talker\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Louis Levi Oakes was one of just 17 Akwesasne Mohawks recognized by the U.S. Congress as code talkers during the Second World War.Blair Crawford\/Postmedia\/File\t<\/p>\n<p>Born in the Quebec part of the Akwesasne Mohawk reserve, Oakes registered in the U.S. army at age 18, and served in New Guinea and the Philippines<\/em><\/p>\n<p>One of our ninjas brings us the sad news that Louis Levi Oakes passed on at 94 years. He was the last surviving Mohawk code talker, one of the men who transmitted messages in their Indigenous languages during the Second World War to baffle enemy code-breakers. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Maura Forrest<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Born in the Quebec part of the Akwesasne Mohawk reserve on Jan. 23, 1925, Louis Levi Oakes registered in the U.S. army at age 18, and served as a code talker in New Guinea and the Philippines until the end of the war. But he kept his work secret for decades afterward, even from his family, only speaking openly about it in recent years after he and other code talkers began to receive national recognition on both sides of the border for their service.<\/p>\n<p>Oakes received a Congressional Silver Medal in 2016. He was recognized at the Assembly of First Nations and in the House of Commons last year, and had a private meeting with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel great, happy,\u201d he told community TV station Akwesasne TV in April 2018, speaking about the recent acknowledgment of his contribution. \u201cI was very proud of it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Oakes passed away in Snye, Que. on Tuesday of natural causes. He was 94 years old.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The entire article may be viewed here: <a href=\"https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/news\/canada\/last-surviving-mohawk-code-talker-from-wwii-louis-levi-oakes-dies-at-94\">The National Post<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fair winds and following seas, Mr. Oakes. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Louis Levi Oakes was one of just 17 Akwesasne Mohawks recognized by the U.S. Congress as &hellip; <a title=\"Last surviving Mohawk code talker from WWII, Louis Levi Oakes, dies at 94\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=87576\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Last surviving Mohawk code talker from WWII, Louis Levi Oakes, dies at 94<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":657,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[232,74,217],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-army-news","category-the-warrior-code","category-we-remember"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/657"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87576"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87577,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87576\/revisions\/87577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}