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4) Stone men
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Publisher
Just Me Publishing
Pub. Date
©2014.
Physical Desc
224 pages.
Description
Gallup, New Mexico, near the Navajo Reservation, is home base for an exclusive group of turquoise dealers known as stone men. When the most successful among them, "the President," stumbles onto the greatest turquoise find in decades, unfortunately for him it's on Navajoland and he's not the only one who wants a piece of the claim. The President will do anything to protect his newfound turquoise mine, but there are international forces at play and...
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Pub. Date
2021.
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When Nathan goes to visit his grandma, Nali, at her mobile summer home on the Navajo reservation, he knows he?s in for a pretty uneventful summer, with no electricity or cell service. Still, he loves spending time with Nali and with his uncle Jet, though it?s clear when Jet arrives that he brings his problems with him. One night, while lost in the nearby desert, Nathan finds someone extraordinary: a Holy Being from the Navajo Creation Story?a Water...
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Pub. Date
[2023]
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An unexpected death on a lonely road outside of Utah's Bears Ears National Monument raises questions for Navajo Tribal Police officers Jim Chee and Bernadette Manuelito. Why would a seasoned outdoorsman and well-known paleontologist freeze to death within walking distance of his car? A second death brings more turmoil. Who is the unidentified man killed during a home invasion where nothing much seems to have been taken? Why was he murdered? The Bears...
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Series
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
305 pages ; 21 cm
Description
A dying man is murdered. A rich man’s wife agrees to pay three thousand dollars for the return of a stolen box of rocks. A series of odd, inexplicable events is haunting Sergeant Jim Chee of the Navajo Tribal Police and drawing him alone into the Bad Country of the merciless Southwest, where everything good struggles to survive, including Chee. Because an assassin waits for him there, protecting a thirty-year-old vision that greed has sired and...
10) Windtalkers
Publisher
Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 153 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A battle-weary Marine Sergeant guards and ultimately befriends a young Navajo trained in the one wartime code never broken by the enemy, the Navajo Code.
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Publisher
Schwartz & Wade Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Description
Cody is worried when his family on a New Mexico Navajo reservation runs out of water, but Darlene Arviso, called "The Water Lady," is on the way with her tanker truck. Includes glossary of Navajo terms and notes about Arviso and life on a reservation.
15) The tale teller
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Leaphorn, Chee and Manuelito volume 5
Leaphorn and Chee novel volume 23
Leaphorn and Chee novel volume 5
Leaphorn Chee and Manuelito volume 5
Leaphorn and Chee novel volume 23
Leaphorn and Chee novel volume 5
Leaphorn Chee and Manuelito volume 5
Description
Joe Leaphorn may have retired from the Tribal Police, but he finds himself knee-deep in a perplexing case involving a priceless artifact?a reminder of a dark time in Navajo history. Joe?s been hired to find a missing biil, a traditional dress that had been donated to the Navajo Nation. His investigation takes a sinister turn when the leading suspect dies under mysterious circumstances and Leaphorn himself receives anonymous warnings to beware?witchcraft...
Publisher
Gateway Films (Vision Video)
Pub. Date
[2018].
Physical Desc
1 DVD (68 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The documentary provides viewers with highly personal insights from a group of Native American war heroes regarding their service on behalf of the United States and the Navajo Nation. The secret code these marines developed, based on the unwritten Navaho language, was never broken, giving American troops an upper hand in many battles that ultimately led to Japan's surrender in 1945.
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Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
320 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
"A construction crew found the first body. The cops found three more, in a cluster that lay on both sides of the border of the Navajo Reservation. Because some of the bodies were buried outside the Rez, Navajo Police Special Investigator Ella Clah and her team must work a delicate joint investigation with the New Mexico police. Identifying the dead isn't easy--some had been buried for years--and at first the cases look to be nothing but dead ends....
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Leaphorn, Chee and Manuelito volume 7
Leaphorn Chee and Manuelito volume 7
Leaphorn and Chee novel volume 25
Leaphorn Chee and Manuelito volume 7
Leaphorn and Chee novel volume 25
Description
Sergeant Jim Chee's vacation to beautiful Antelope Canyon and Lake Powell has a deeper purpose. He's on a quest to unravel a sacred mystery his mentor, the Legendary Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn, stumbled across decades earlier. Chee's journey takes a deadly turn when, after a prayerful visit to the sacred Rainbow Bridge, he spots a body floating in the lake. The dead man, a Navajo with a passion for the canyon's ancient rock art, lived a life filled with...
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