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121) Never-ending-snake
Author
Series
Ella Clah mysteries volume 16
Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
As a people, the Navajo seek to walk in beauty and find a balance between modern and traditional culture. As a mother, a daughter, and a member of the Navajo Nation, Ella Clah finds her own way to walk-but as a police officer, she seeks both justice and truth. When Never-ending-snake begins, Ella is returning from a trip to Washington, DC, where she has been presented with a lucrative offer of employment with a private security firm. The catch?...
124) Broken rainbow
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
Heartbreaking tale of the forced relocation of 12,000 Navajos from their ancestral homeland in Arizona that began in the 1970's and continues to this day. Witness as they take their protest to Congress and turn tragedy into acts of heroic resistance.
125) A thief of time
Pub. Date
2004]
Description
An archaeologist turned pottery poacher thinks she has cracked the secret of the vanished Anasazi culture, when she herself vanishes. Leaphorn and Chee must piece together a case as complicated as the decorated pots that seem to motivate the killer.
126) Bessie Yellowhair
Author
Pub. Date
1973
Description
A white woman shares her experiences posing as a Navaho, living on a reservation, and working as a domestic for a white family.
127) Turquoise boy
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c1990
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A retelling of a Navajo Indian legend in which Turquoise Boy searches for something that will make the Navajo people's lives easier. Includes a brief history of the Navajo people and their customs.
128) Lost birds
Author
Series
Leaphorn, Chee and Manuelito volume 9
Leaphorn Chee and Manuelito volume 9
Leaphorn and Chee novel volume 27
Leaphorn and Chee novel volume 9
Leaphorn Chee and Manuelito volume 9
Leaphorn and Chee novel volume 27
Leaphorn and Chee novel volume 9
Formats
Description
From New York Times bestselling author Anne Hillerman, a thrilling and moving chapter in the Leaphorn, Chee & Manuelito series involving several emotionally complex cases that will test the detectives in different ways. Joe Leaphorn may be long retired from the Navajo Tribal Police, but his detective skills are still sharp, honed by his work as a private detective. His experience will be essential to solve a compelling new case: finding the birth...
132) 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.
134) Changing woman
Author
Series
Ella Clah mysteries volume 7
Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 18
Description
The authors' seventh satisfying novel (after 2001's Red Mesa) about Navajo Police Special Investigator Ella Clah finds her Native American community wracked by internal divisions as well as besieged and bedeviled by deadly outside forces.
136) Navajo
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
This title introduces readers to the Navajo people. Text covers traditional ways of life, including social structure, homes, food, art, clothing, and more. Also discussed is contact with Europeans, as well as how the people keep their culture alive today. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Checkerboard Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.
137) The Navajos
Author
Pub. Date
[1993]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Provides an overview of the history, culture, and ways of life of the Navajo Indians.
Author
Description
Portrayed by past historians as the greatest guide and Indian fighter in the West, Kit Carson has become in recent years a historical pariah--a brutal murderer who betrayed the Navajos, and an unwitting dupe of American expansion, and a racist. Many historians now question both his reputation and his place in the pantheon of American heroes. Here we are urged to reconsider Carson yet again. Carson was a man of the nineteenth century, whose racial...
140) Ghost medicine
Author
Series
Ella Clah mysteries volume 18
Pub. Date
2013.
Description
"Former Navajo Police officer Harry Ute's body is found in an isolated part of the Navajo Reservation, rumored to be skinwalker country. This makes Navajo Police Special Investigator Ella Clah's job much harder--no one wants to speak to her for fear of incurring the wrath of the Navajo witches. Harry's latest P.I. case involves tracking down property stolen from the county. This leads Ella to work with county Detective Dan Nez. Ella doesn't trust...
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