(1907 - 1998)
Carl Nelson (Kin-Ya-Onny Beyeh) Gorman was active/lived in New Mexico, California, Arizona. Carl Gorman is known for Indian figure and genre painting, illustration.
Biography Carl Gorman
A Navajo Indian, Carl Gorman ultimately settled in a trailer-studio in
Fort Defiance, Arizona where he turned out paintings of horses and
other subjects. He spent much of World War II in the Pacific as
one of 29 Navajo code talkers who successfully stymied the
Japanese. Stationed in Guadalcanal, Tarawa, and Saipan, he and
his fellow code talkers earned much recognition for their significant
role in winning the war in the Pacific because the Japanese found no
method to decipher the 'code', which was the Navajo language.
Gorman was born October 5, 1907 on the Navajo reservation in Chinle,
Arizona to Nelson Gorman and Alice Peshlakai, both Navajos. His
parents were founders of the Presbyterian Mission at
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