navajo indians

Presents the history, culture, and way of life of the Navajos, the largest native American group in the United States today.

Navajo stories and poems with explanatory material.

A young Navajo girl recounts the events of 1864 when her tribe was forced to march to Fort Sumner as prisoners of the white soldiers.

Describes the role of a select group of Navajo Marines who developed a code based on their own native language that provided a means for secure communications among American forces in the Pacific during World War II.

Separate police investigations become closely related when it becomes clear that Henry Highhawk is wanted by others besides the police and is involved in more than grave robbing.

A noted anthropologist arrives at an Anasazi Indian ruin to dig for clay pots and is terrified by what looms out of the darkness. Weeks later she is reported missing. Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn unearths a bizarre and mystifying series of murders.

Lt. Joe Leaphorn and Officer Jim Chee of the Navajo Tribal Police are united in a murder investigation that leads them into the dark world of Navajo witchcraft.

No one was seriously alarmed by the disappearance of two teenage boys, until Lt. Joe Leaphorn found the splattered trail of blood which lead to a ritually slaughtered victim.

Navajo Tribal policeman Jim Chee joins with his mentor, now-retired Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn, to solve a complicated case when a young officer is murdered on the same day that biologist Cathy Pollard, hot on the trail of the source of the bubonic plague, disappears.

When Alan, a half-Navajo in touch with the spiritual mysticism of his ancestors, meets Aimee, a gifted psychic in his new high school, they realize they've had precognitive dreams of each other and that they must confront an evil spirit that has been responsible for mysterious deaths in the river in their small Maine town for hundreds of years and which is now haunting Alan's cousin Courtney.