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Chee, Jim (Fictitious character) Fiction Indian reservation police Fiction Indians of North America Southwestern States Fiction Leaphorn, Joe, Lt. (Fictitious character) Fiction Murder Investigation Fiction Navajo Indians Navajo Indians Fiction Police Southwestern States Fiction Southwestern States Fiction United States Southwestern StatesBruchac, Joseph
Summary: After being taught in a boarding school run by whites that Navajo is a useless language, Ned Begay and other Navajo men are recruited by the Marines to become Code Talkers, sending messages during World War II in their native tongue.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books 2005
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC BRUHillerman, Tony
Summary: After Sgt. Jim Chee discovers the body of a Navajo man with horribly flayed feet and hands, a number of apparently unrelated events leads him along a path of confusion. Was Chee being duped in a magician's elaborate sleight of hand?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HILHillerman, Tony
Summary: Native American policeman Joe Leaphorn probes the murder of an old Indian soothsayer and a young Indian girl, and ends up investigating the strange kidnapping of a group of Boy Scouts and evading a plot on his own life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2018
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Summary: "Yossel, along with his family, flees anti-Jewish Russian pogroms in the late nineteenth century and settles in the American Southwest where he forges a friendship with Thomas, a Native American Navajo boy"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge Publishing 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LASHillerman, Tony.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2000
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HILFortunato, John
Summary: Determined to save his failing career, Bureau of Indian Affairs Special Agent Joe Evers partners with Navajo Tribal Officer Randall Bluehorse to solve a mysterious cold case involving black-market trade in Native American artifacts and political corruption.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FORHillerman, Tony.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Buccaneer Books 1973
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HILHillerman, Tony.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Armchair Detective Library 1991
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HILHillerman, Tony.
Summary: PI Joe Leaphorn of Arizona investigates the murder of an Indian policeman for which an eagle poacher has been arrested. Leaphorn thinks someone else did it. By the author of The Fallen Man.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HILCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS HILHillerman, Tony.
Summary: When Tribal policeman Jim Chee discovers a blood-stained Hopi man hovering over a dead body, it looks like an open-and-shut-case. But Joe Leaphorn's investigation will blow this case wide open.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 1998
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HILHillerman, Tony.
Summary: Jim Chee and Joe Leaphorn solve a crime that involves the murder of a Pueblo tribal official, the death of a schoolteacher, and the disappearance of a tribal memento.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 1993
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Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HILCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Hillerman 2013Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M HILCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: MYSTERY HILYoung, Brian
Summary: "When Nathan goes to visit his grandma, Nali, at her mobile summer home on the Navajo reservation, he knows he's in for a pretty uneventful summer, with no electricity or cell service. Still, he loves spending time with Nali and with his uncle Jet, though it's clear when Jet arrives that he brings his problems with him. One night, while lost in the nearby desert, Nathan finds someone...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Heartdrum, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021