WASHINGTON, S.D. (AP) - Some American Indian military veterans will be honored for befuddling their enemies by using their native language on the battlefield.

Sen. John Thune says President Bush signed the Code Talkers Recognition Act of 2008 into law.

Code talkers used Native American languages to provide secure communications that enemies couldn't understand.

The military's use of code talkers goes back to 1918 and they were used extensively in the European and Pacific theaters during World War II.

Thune says the honor is long overdue but well deserved because they saved lives and helped Allied forces win the war.

Clarence Wolf Guts of the Oglala Sioux Tribe is the last surviving Lakota code talker from World War II.