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3 unusual facts about Samuel Nathan Blatchford


Samuel Nathan Blatchford

His mother, Pauline Manuelito was the great-granddaughter of the great warrior Chief Manuelito who fought Kit Carson in the Navajo Wars (1869–63) and led his people in exile to the current Navajo Reservation.

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In addition to his native Navajo and second language of English, he also learned to speak Turkish, French, German and Japanese.

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The French government presented him with its Freedom Medal for his work with the French Resistance, a Citizenship Medal bestowing honorary citizenship, as well as the key to the city of Lisio.



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