John Kinsel used his own language to fool the Japanese

On the day John Kinsel came back from the second world war, his mother immediately called in the medicine man. It was not to treat his leg, though it had been broken in Iwo Jima, and on that leg he had walked the last seven miles over the Arizona mountains to Lukachukai and his family, lugging a suitcase so full of hard-to-get cigarettes that he had bound it up with rope. The medicine man was needed to re-initiate him into his community and tribe. To make him a Navajo again.