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Author
Series
Yazzie Goldman novels volume 1
Publisher
Forge Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
288 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"Upon his return from World War II, Seaman Yazzie Goldman realizes that not much has changed at his family's trading post in Monument Valley--and yet everything is different ... [Yazzie's mother] Nizhoni is thrilled that Yazzie has returned to help bring the trading post back to prosperity. Excitement comes from the nearby filming of a John Ford movie starring Henry Fonda. Director Ford enlists the tall, strong, half-Navajo and half-Jewish Yazzie...
Publisher
AMC Studios
Pub. Date
[2023]
Formats
Description
In Season Two, Lt. Joe Leaphorn reunites with Jim Chee, his former deputy turned private eye when their separate cases bring them together in pursuit of the same suspect. They find themselves in the high desert of Navajo Country chasing a killer.
Author
Publisher
Ohio University Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
x, 123 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Description
"Through Thomas H. Begay's singular story, this richly illustrated biography for young readers describes aspects of Navajo history and culture and shows how a select group of Navajo soldiers used their native Dinae language to invent and operate a secretcommunications system that was crucial to a US victory in the Pacific during World War II"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"By the time the United States joined the Second World War in 1941, the fight against Nazi and Axis powers had already been under way for two years. In order to win the war and protect its soldiers, the US Marines recruited twenty-nine Navajo men to create a secret code that could be used to send military messages quickly and safely across battlefields. Author James Buckley Jr. explains how these brave and intelligent men developed their amazing code,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Bridgestone Books
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
24 p. : col. ill. ; 21 cm.
Description
A history of the largest group of Native Americans in the United States and a description of their homes, educational system, government, ceremonies, stories, location, and their role as codetalkers.
Author
Series
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
Formats
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...
67) Skinwalkers
Series
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 97 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The Navajo Tribal Police investigate the murder of a medicine man. At the crime scene is a partially completed pictograph. One clue sends a chill through a young officer: the arrow used in the killing has a tip of human bone, a sign that a Navajo spirit - a "skinwalker"--Is at work.
Author
Series
Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee mysteries volume 7
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
304 pages ; 21 cm
Description
"Three shotgun blasts rip through the side of Officer Jim Chee's trailer as the Navajo Tribal Policeman sleeps. He survives, but the inexplicable attack has raised disturbing questions about a lawman once beyond reproach. Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn wonders why Chee was a target and what connection the assault has to a series of gruesome murders that has been plaguing the reservation. But the investigation is leading them both into a nightmare of ritual,...
70) The blessing way
Author
Series
Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
271 pages ; 21 cm
Description
Witchcraft appears to be involved in the death of an Indian whose body was found in Many Ruins Canyon and Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn is charged with the task of solving the crime.
71) Lost birds
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
469 pages ; 24 cm.
Description
Retired from the Navajo Tribal Police, P.I. Joe Leaphorn is hired to find the birth parents of a woman raised by a bilagaana family, which unexpectedly turns into a complicated case, while Officer Bernadette Manuelito investigates an explosion linked hisinvestigation.
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