During World Wars I and II, hundreds of Native American servicemen from more than twenty tribes used their Indigenous languages to send secret, coded messages enemies could never break. “Code talkers” refers to those Native Americans who used their tribal languages as a means of secret communication during wartime. These men helped U.S. forces achieve military victory in some of the greatest battles of the twentieth century. Under the Act, unique gold medals are struck for each Native American tribe that had a member who served as a code talker.