less than 30 non-navajos fluent in the unique navajo language. he realized that since it had no alphabet and was almost impossible to master without early exposure, the navajo language was a perfect choice to form a new, impenetrable military code. in 1942 johnson completed an impressive demonstration of the navajo language to the commanding general of the pacific fleet, headquartered in san diego. he was then given permission to begin a pilot for the navajo code talker program and i'd like to submit his letter dated march 8, 1942, for the record. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered. mr. gosar: the early unit was formed in early 1942 when the first of the 29 navajo code talkers were recruited by johnson. the code was modified and improved throughout the war but it is so important -- still important to note that these 29 navajo heroes came up with the original code themselves. accordingly, they are often referred to reverendly as the original 29. we will have the honor of reading their names a bit later this evening. many of the

this is out on the navajo reservation in southern utah. this is part of a structure that's about, i'd say, 300 rooms running along the back side of this canyon, a little village, small city, something. artifacts everywhere. one of the walls had fallen out, revealing the floor that had been packed in there, hundreds of years of people using the same floor just pushing down the dirt so that there are pieces of woven -- of braided string sticking out of the floor everywhere and arrowheads and broken pottery and i realized when i came up against the stack of this trash pile i put my head against it and looked along it. i could see it was covered with hair. people in that room had been combing their hair for hundreds of years and it had been landing on the floor. and then new floors are built on top of that and new floors and i ran my hand across, just barely across, the front of this and i could feel the hair of people who had been there and i was there with a navajo guy that i know who just was creeped out by this. because there's a certain h

navajos have been together for almost 20 years, but they have always had to have separate health care plans. >> it is catastrophic health insurance, very expensive. and the money that we could have been saving, pro with the help of the family quite a bit. >> surrounded by family and friends, the couple married in massachusetts. margaret began fighting for her to be covered under health care plan. he says the cab he denied it. margaret what to the labor union, but she also denied her grievance. >> we decided rather than appeal that position, we will let the health care review committee review the issue and, of course, make it applicable to all county employees. >> the decision is the right thing to do. in a county employee legally married in another state will be able to extend health-care benefits to their same-sex partner. >> i will tell you that it was vetted through this health-care review committee which is comprised of all the different employee groups. >> i am happy for the younger people coming up, they don't have to fight so hard. >> at this provision goes into affect on janua

wetherill moved there with his wife marietta filed a homestead claim, and hired nearly 100 navajos to help with the excavations. though wetherill tried to carry on his work as carefully and scientifically as possible, professional archaeologists still dismissed him as a pothunter. and as the relics he was unearthing reached eastern museums, 50,000 pieces of turquoise 10,000 pieces of pottery 5,000 stone implements and much more, they clamored for the government to do something to stop him. smith: richard wetherill was very careful identifying everything he found. a he was ahead of the professional archaeologists, which is an oxymoron at that time but he was ahead of them and i think they were jealous of him. there's a snobbishness. educated easterners can't believe that a western cowboy could possibly be doing these things. coyote: for his part wetherill said he would gladly turn over any portions of chaco canyon if the federal government would simply do something to protect them. but the criticism of wetherill's work would not go away. [bird cawing] coyote: meanwhile, back at mesa ve

. >> a member of the navajo tribe, tex joey travels regularly from his reservation to aid in the ceremonye american brothers that are incarcerated, they're coming from the outside, you know, the addicted themselves to certain things, and i guess you could say that they're mad at the world, things like that. >> inmate marty begay came here 11 years ago after he was convicted of murder during an attempted robbery. >> i barely started getting into my roots when i came into prison around six years ago. and i was approved to have my medicine bag and herbs. they say you lose yourself in here and get caught up in all the negative stuff that prison has to offer. when you come in here, you know you forget all that stuff, you know. >> this sweat box ceremony is really to purify their system, their physical self, emotional, mental, spiritual, like that. this is really what it's for, to cleanse, you know. >> before i used to come to the sweat lodge, you know, i was quick to get angry at the staff members and stuff like that. but now, you know, if a staff members gets me angry, you know, i just let it

>> how can it possibly cover the costs to get -- iconic examples they ride the donkeys down to a navajout the postal service. what struck me so much in that show, to me the postal worker was the iconic black working person's job. like just growing up -- >> for years that's been the case. >> so, what struck me in watching your show, was that knowing -- and i said this earlier about how the black poverty is growing our how our wealth is shrinking and oprah and diddy are just smoke and mirrors. it's really getting worse. and then this was profound, this idea that this kind of bedrock of working class could be gone. so, learning that, we have lost poverty. like the average black person has $2,200 in wealth. versus nonblack that has something like $97,000. that's shocking. >> yeah. the income inequality is what we talk about a lot but racial disparity in wealth, distinct from income. >> wealth is very different. >> that inequality is massive, massive. my thanks to sam, nancy giles, lizz winstead, writer, and michaela. thank you for letting us into your home. it an absolute privilege. coming