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1) Honor bound
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"My name is Lucas Greywolf." A raspy voice, as soft and sandy as the wind that blew across the desert, spoke directly into her ear. It was a gentle sound, but Aislinn wasn't deceived. Like the winds it reminded her of, it could be whipped into a fury. . .Aislinn Andrews knows his name because his escape from prison has prompted a statewide manhunt. As lean and menacing as a panther, the fugitive invades her house, her bed, and then takes her as his...
2) Skinwalkers
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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.
4) Navajo
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
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Informative, easy-to read text and oversized photographs draw in readers as they learn about the Navajo. Traditional ways of life, including social structure, homes, food, art, clothing, and more are covered. A map highlights the tribe's homeland, while fun facts and a timeline with photos help break up the text. Also discussed is contact with Europeans and American settlers, as well as how the people keep their culture alive today. The book closes...
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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 Zuñi. But his investigation into a terrible crime is being complicated by an important archaeological dig . . . and a steel hypodermic
...6) Windtalkers
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MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2002
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English
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In the Pacific theater during World War II, a Marine is assigned to protect a Navajo codetalker.
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"When a noted anthropologist arrives at an ancient Anasazi Indian ruin to dig for clay pots, she is at first angry to discover that the pre-Navajo burial site has already been despoiled, then terrified by what looms out of the darkness. Weeks later, Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn, investigating a report to the Navajo Tribal Police that the anthropologist has been stealing precious artifacts, discovers she has also been reported as missing. The case turns...
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Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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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...
12) Enemy way
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Forge
Pub. Date
1998
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English
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Ella Clah, a Special Investigator with the native police force, has been working hard with her colleagues to keep the peace on the vast Navajo reservation, but she becomes dangerously overwhelmed when her mother is injured in an accident with a drunk driver, and her friend Lisa is murdered--possibly by a Navajo witch.
13) Coyote waits
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An investigation of the murder of a tribal policeman leads to a historical find worth a fortune.
17) Red mesa
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 19
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English
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Navajo Police Special Investigator Ella Clah is on the run. Justine, Ella's cousin and fellow officer, disappeared after the two women argued publicly over Justine's new boyfriend. Human bones are discovered at the spot where the younger woman had told her family she and Ella were to meet late one night. Suddenly Ella Clah, cop, is Ella Clah, murder suspect.
Stunned by Justine's death, Ella has no time to mourn. Her former allies in the Navajo...
18) The dark wind
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The fifth novel featuring Leaphorn and Chee by New York Times bestselling author Tony Hillerman, now reissued in the Premium Plus format. The corpse had been "scalped," its palms and soles removed after death. Sergeant Jim Chee of the Navajo Tribal Police knows immediately he will have his hands full with this case, a certainty that is supported by the disturbing occurrences to follow. A mysterious nighttime plane crash, a vanishing shipment of cocaine,...
19) Coyote waits
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PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004], c2003
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English
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In this adaptation of Tony Hillerman's novel, Navajo police detective Joe Leaphorn and officer Jim Chee solve a modern murder and a bank robbery supposedly committed by Butch Cassidy.
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