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The Navajo Code Talkers Museum will break ground Dec. 1 in Farmington
The Daily Farmington team
If you've waited on the Navajo Code Talkers Museum, mark Dec. 1. Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham's office announced a groundbreaking at 1 p.m. at Navajo Preparatory School, 1220 West Apache Street. It's free and open to the public.
The museum honors more than 400 Navajo Marines
- $20 million
- in state funding, nearly
- 400+
- Navajo Marines who served as Code Talkers in World War II
- 6,000
- square feet of core exhibit space, approximately
- 17
- future Code Talkers who attended the school, at least
Source: Tri City Record
The museum will sit on Navajo Nation land under a 99-year lease with the Navajo Nation. The Santa Fe New Mexican reports the project is seven years in the making and that just two Code Talkers are still living.
- When: 1 p.m. Dec. 1, free
- Where: Eagle's Nest Gymnasium, Navajo Preparatory School
- Designer: CSR Architects of Albuquerque
- Exhibits: Ideum of Corrales
- Updates: iad.nm.gov/NavajoCodeTalkersMuseum
99 yearslength of the museum's lease with the Navajo Nation
The museum will be held under that lease on Navajo Nation land at the school.
Source: KOB 4
The site has a history. Navajo Prep occupies the former Navajo Methodist Mission School campus. Head of school Shawna Allison Becenti said, "This groundbreaking is a moment our students, families and veterans will remember."
Sources: Tri City Record, KOB 4, Santa Fe New Mexican