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24) The enemy gods
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In his first book, the Pulitzer Prize novel "Laughing Boy," Oliver La Farge gave us a superb lyrical story of Navajo Indian life. In the fullness of his maturity as a writer, he later returned to the Navajo scene with "The Enemy Gods," a richer, deeper book than he had written before and its theme, both an absorbing story and a living social document, is nearer to his heart. It centers around Myron Begay-Divine Arrow is his Indian name, a young Navajo,...
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A Navajo trooper tracks a murderous fugitive loose on the reservation Joe Threepersons is a killer, but that doesn't bother most of the people on the Apache reservation. After all, killing a white man is not an unforgiveable crime. Sam Watchman, on the other hand, is paid to care. Though a proud Navajo, he's also a state trooper, so tracking killers is his business. The sheriff sent him because of his familiarity with the reservation, but no man knows...
26) Coyote waits
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The car fire didn't kill Navajo Tribal Policeman Delbert Nez, a bullet did. Officer Jim Chee's good friend Del lies dead, and a whiskey-soaked Navajo shaman is found with the murder weapon. The old man is Ashie Pinto. He's quickly arrested for homicide and defended by a woman Chee could either love or loathe. But when Pinto won't utter a word of confession or denial, Lt. Joe Leaphorn begins an investigation. Soon, Leaphorn and Chee unravel a complex...
28) Turquoise girl
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A serial killer stalks young Navajo men and women ... and Ella Clah's family might be next in his sights, in Aimee and David Thurlo's Turquoise Girl!
Navajo Police Special Investigator Ella Clah has seen a lot of death in the decade since she returned to the Reservation, but nothing quite as bad as a series of violent murders of young Navajo. Something about the crime scene reminds Ella of her days in the FBI, and she calls on Agent Blalock for help....
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Tells the story of Paiute Indian Sowagerie (Posey) from birth to death. Based on historic people and events in San Juan County, Utah, abt. 1860 - 1923. Novel focuses primarily on Sowagerie's earlier life and upbringing around Bluff and concludes with the "Posey War" near Blanding.
Additional significant characters include Poke, Toorah, Big-Mouth Mike, Pahneab, and other Paiute Indians and the Navajo Indians Tsabekiss and Bitseel.
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Murders and mysteries abound in a remote Tibetan village in this novel in the Edgar Award–winning series. Shan Tao Yun, formerly an investigator in Beijing, has been asked to help save a comatose man. The man is believed to be guilty of two murders in which the victims' arms were removed-but when the detective arrives, he discovers that the suspect is not actually Tibetan, but Navajo. The man has come here with his niece, seeking the ancestral ties...
36) Navajo pet
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Although their pets are best friends, two Navajo boys do not get along at all.
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Croft combs New Mexico for a Navajo who's been dead since 1866 On a fishing trip in the mountains outside of Santa Fe, private detective Joshua Croft hears pistol fire. He finds an elderly Navajo encircled by a trio of trigger-happy yokels, demanding the old man dance for them. Croft disarms them, sends them packing, and returns to Santa Fe a few days later. He has nearly forgotten about the incident by the time the Navajo turns up in his office to...
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