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1) Coyote waits
Series
Pub. Date
[2004], c2003
Description
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.
2) Windtalkers
Description
In the Pacific theater during World War II, a Marine is assigned to protect a Navajo codetalker.
3) Skinwalkers
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.
Pub. Date
[200?]
Description
During World War II, the U.S. Marine Corps recruited Navajo Indians for duty as communication specialists. The Navajos developed a special voice code based on the Navajo language to transmit battlefield messages during the Pacific campaign. This code was never broken by the Japanese.
10) Dark wind
Pub. Date
p2003
Description
The popular hero of several Tony Hillerman best-sellers, Navajo cop Jim Chee, is a student of the old ways who wanted to be a medicine man before he became a lawman. Now as a cop covering the Arizona Territories belonging to the Hopi and Navajo Indians, he's torn between both worlds. When the badly mutilated victim of a Navajo skinwalker is found on Hopi land, Chee is suddenly plunged into a world of mystery filled with drug dealers, F.B.I. agents,...
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
The documentary provides viewers with highly personal insights from a group of Native American war heroes regarding their service on behalf of the United States and the Navajo Nation. The secret code these marines developed, based on the unwritten Navaho language, was never broken, giving American troops an upper hand in many battles that ultimately led to Japan's surrender in 1945.
13) Navajo blues
Pub. Date
1996
Description
After witnessing a Mafia hit, a detective is sent into the Witness Protection Program and relocated to a Navajo reservation in Arizona.
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
"Follows Navajo students in a lively collaboration with mathematicians. The math circles approach emphasizes student-centered learning by putting children in charge of exploring mathematics to their own joy and satisfaction. The documentary reveals the challenges in education for the Navajo Nation. Applications of math in Native culture provide tools for increasing math literacy, highlighting the special connections between Navajo culture, natural...
15) Power Paths
Pub. Date
2009
Description
This documentary follows the Navajo, Hopi and Lakota Sioux tribes, as they find ways to introduce renewable energy projects into their communities through a grassroots movement that the filmmakers have tracked over the past tow years. .
16) Two spirits
Pub. Date
©2010
Description
Examines the role of two-spirit people in the Navajo culture in the context of the story of a gay youth named Fred Martinez. Martinez was a nádleehí or a male-bodied person with a feminine essence, who was murdered in a hate crime at the age of sixteen. Discusses the traditional Native American perspective on gender and sexuality and the need for a balanced interrelationship between the feminine and masculine.
17) Turquoise Rose
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
Turquoise Rose "plans to vacation in Europe for the summer with her roommate, but all that changes in a heartbeat when her grandmother falls sick.Turquoise is asked to care for her ailing grandma, and suddenly Turquoise must choose between Rome and the Reservation. A "Rez" summer seems dreadful to this Urban Native ..."--Holt Hamilton Productions website
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
For academic and athletic teens Thomas and Tamara, home is an impoverished town on the Navajo reservation, and leaving means separating from family, tradition and the land that has been theirs for generations. Erica Scharf's documentary shows one year in the lives of two gifted kids who must not only become young adults, but also learn how to be both modern and Native. A PBS POV (Point of View) documentary.
19) The lost child
Pub. Date
c2000
Description
Adoptee Rebecca Hoffman experiences culture conflict when she brings her family to meet her birth family on a Navajo reservation.
20) Windtalkers
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
A battle-weary Marine is assigned to guard - and ultimately befriends - a young Navajo soldier who has been trained to be a code talker. This code, the Navajo code, and the men who knew the code, were to be guarded as they went into action. It was the unspoken duty of the Marine to kill the Navajo soldier before he could be taken prisoner of war by the Japanese. This is the one wartime code that was never broken by the enemy.
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