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1) Skinwalkers
Author
Publisher
Harper & Row
Pub. Date
c1986
Language
English
Description
Lt. Joe Leaphorn and Officer Jim Chee of the Navajo Tribal Police are united in a murder investigation that leads them into the dark world of Navajo witchcraft.
2) The Navajo
Author
Series
Publisher
Childrens Press
Pub. Date
c1987
Language
English
Description
A brief history of the Navajo Indians describing customs, interactions with white settlers, and changes in traditional ways of life brought on by modern civilization.
3) The Navajos
Author
Series
Publisher
Chelsea House Publishers
Pub. Date
c1990
Language
English
Description
Examines the history, culture, changing fortunes, and current situation of the Navajo Indians.
5) The Navajo
Author
Series
Publisher
Marshall Cavendish/Benchmark
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Describes the history, beliefs, and traditional and contemporary daily lives of the Navajo people and includes a time line, glossary, and list of further resources.
7) Windtalkers
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
A battle-weary Marine is assigned to guard - and ultimately befriends - a young Navajo soldier who has been trained to be a code talker. This code, the Navajo code, and the men who knew the code, were to be guarded as they went into action. It was the unspoken duty of the Marine to kill the Navajo soldier before he could be taken prisoner of war by the Japanese. This is the one wartime code that was never broken by the enemy.
10) The spirit line
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Crystal Manyfeathers, a Navajo girl with misgivings about her people's traditions, searches for the thief of the rug she was weaving for her upcoming womanhood ceremony and wonders if her best friend, Henry, is right in his suspicions that she is being punished for not paying tribute to the deity the Spider Woman.
11) Blackening song
Author
Publisher
FORGE
Pub. Date
2001, c1995
Language
English
Description
FBI agent Ella Clah returns to her Navajo reservation to find the killer of her father, a Christian minister. The probe is complicated by her long stay in the white world. While she is convinced that she has retained her Indian soul, the locals don't think so. By the authors of Second Shadow.
12) The dark wind
Author
Publisher
HarperPaperbacks
Pub. Date
1990, c1982
Language
English
Description
A new assignment with the tribal police in the troubled Navajo/Hopi borderlands draws Jim Chee into a world of Hopi sorcery, Navajo witchcraft, and smuggling.
13) The Big Wander
Author
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
1992
Language
English
Description
As he searches for his uncle through the rugged Southwest canyon country, fourteen-year-old Clay becomes involved with a group of Navajo Indians who are trying to save some of the last wild mustangs.
14) The ghostway
Author
Publisher
Harper & Row
Pub. Date
1985, c1984
Language
English
Description
Tribal policeman Jim Chee's search for a killer takes him from the desert to Los Angeles.
16) Death walker
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
On a Navajo reservation someone murders one of its "living treasures," that is people who hold and teach the cultural and religious wisdom of the tribe. The case is taken up by tribal policewoman Ella Clah, formerly of the FBI.
Author
Series
Boxcar children mysteries volume 37
Publisher
A. Whitman
Pub. Date
1993
Language
English
Description
While visiting a Navaho Indian reservation in New Mexico, the Aldens try to save a forest under threat of development by proving it is the site of a lost, buried village, but someone is sabotaging their dig.
19) The fallen man
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
c1996
Language
English
Description
A skeleton found on a ledge of a sacred mountain believed to be the remains of Harold Breedlove, a ranching heir who disappeared years earlier, throws retired Lt. Joe Leaphorn and acting Lt. Jim Chee of the Navajo Tribal Police, back together in an attempt to solve decade-old case.
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