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122) The Collector
Author
Series
Navajo Nation mystery volume 9
Description
When the local trader is found murdered the only clue points directly at Lucy Tallwoman. The FBI sweeps in to discover a decades-old trail of deceit and betrayal as the darker days of Lucy's past come back to haunt her. The family decides they need help...and fast. Caught up in a chilling plot to control the burgeoning trade in Native American art Investigator Charlie Yazzie finds himself dangerously out of his league as two billionaire collectors...
123) 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.
125) 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.
129) 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.
131) Loving Chloe
Author
Formats
Description
Horsewoman Chloe arrives at Hank's cabin in Arizona to announce she is pregnant and they resume their romance. The baby is delivered by Junior Whitebear, a handsome Indian and Chloe falls in love with him, concluding she is not destined to be a one-man woman. By the author of Hank and Chloe.
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...
135) The Navajo
Author
Pub. Date
c2000
Description
This book introduces the history, culture, religion, family life, and tribal government of the Navajo people.
Author
Pub. Date
1973.
Description
For a long time, what I knew of Navajo life came to me in fragments. These made some things clearer, but they usually ended in deepening the mystery surrounding still others. I do not think I know now, or will ever understand very well who the Navajos are. The mystery will survive my curiosity, just as I think it has the inquiries of many others, even Navajos, who set out to understand the life of an entire people.
138) The Navajo
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
""Engaging images accompany information about the Navajo. The combination of high-interest subject matter and narrative text is intended for students in grades 3 through 8"--Provided by publisher"--
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