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6) The Navaho
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A classic anthropological study of the Navajo by the famous Kluckhohn and Leighton.
10) The Navajo
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This book is a case study of the pastoral aspects of the Nez Ch'ii society and culture.
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Just before starting second grade, Jim Kristofic moved from Pittsburgh across the country to Ganado, Arizona, when his mother took a job at a hospital on the Navajo Reservation. Navajos Wear Nikes reveals the complexity of modern life on the Navajo Reservation, a world where Anglo and Navajo coexisted in a tenuous truce. After the births of his Navajo half-siblings, Jim and his family moved off the Reservation to an Arizona border town where they...
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People of Darkness meant little to Sergeant Jim Chee when he took on an assignment for Mrs. Rosemary Vines. Her husband's property had been vandalized and a box of keepsakes stolen. Why did she call Chee, a Navajo tribal police officer, instead of the New Mexico authorities? When the leaders of a secret peyote cult begin to show up as murder victims, Chee comes closer to the answers and to the solution of a series of crimes triggered by an oil well...
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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...
17) The Ghostway
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"Old Joseph Joe witnessed the shoot-out between two strangers at the Shiprock Wash-O-Mat. One died. The other drove off into the dry lands of the Big Reservation. But not before he had given Old Joe a look at a Polaroid of the man he was searching for. The old Navajo couldn't tell Tribal Policeman Jim Chee what was written on the photo. He didn't read the white man's words. But Chee had enough to send him after a killer. The trail led to an Indian...
20) The tale teller
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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...
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