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""Navajo Nation Police Officer Bernadette Manualito witnesses the cold-blooded shooting of someone very close to her. With the victim fighting for his life, the entire squad and the local FBI office are hell-bent on catching the gunman. Bernie, too, wants in on the investigation, despite regulations forbidding eyewitness involvement. But that doesn't mean she's going to sit idly by, especially when her husband, Sergeant Jim Chee, is in charge of finding...
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A Weave of Time powerfully documents 50 years and four generations of change in one Navajo family. In 1938, noted anthropologist John Adair travelled to the Navajo reservation in Pine Springs, Arizona with a 16mm hand wind motion picture camera. There Adair met and filmed the Burnside family, creating a visual record of Navajo life in the 1930's. In an unprecedented composite, Adair's previously unseen historical footage is juxtaposed with contemporary...
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Legendary Navajo police lieutenant Joe Leaphorn takes center stage in this riveting, atmospheric mystery about the search for a lost, valuable traditional weaving. The task combines crime, superstition and tradition, and vividly brings the Southwestern desert to life. [From publisher's description]
11) The Navajo
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Examines the history, traditional lifestyle, and current situation of the Navajo Indians.
12) Navajo
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"Within this carefully researched and detailed account of the Navajo people, readers will learn the origins and history of what is today the largest reservation-based Native American group in North America. The experiences of generations of Navajo have culminated in a people that today are fiercely proud of their heritage and of protecting their traditions and way of life in the modern world. This fascinating story invites readers to understand the...
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Two Native American boys have vanished into thin air, leaving a pool of blood behind them. Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn of the Navajo Tribal Police has no choice but to suspect the very worst, since the blood that stains the parched New Mexican ground once flowed through the veins of one of the missing, a young Zuni. But his investigation into a terrible crime is being complicated by an important archaeological dig-and a steel hypodermic needle. And the...
17) Hunting badger
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Navajo Tribal Police officers, Sergeant Jim Chee and retired Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn, are called to investigate when the FBI, looking into the robbery of the Ute tribe's gamblinb casino, identify a wounded deputy sheriff as a suspect.
19) Sacred clowns
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There was a time when I was privileged to build a small sacred fire on a mound in the sacred circle for new moon ceremonies. The fire was an embodiment of the spirit made manifest for the group who came together to replenish their collective and individual spirits.
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