The adventures of two young traders on the Navajo Indian reservation.

This liberally illustrated exploration of 'the Navajo worldview' presents a lively back and forth conversation fielding a wide breadth of topics, including the remarkably complex architecture of the Navajo language, the coalescing history of its people bolstered by the evidence of genetics, the unique healing system that focuses on a reordering of an individual in need, the Navajo rock wall imagery within an earlier ancestral area known as the Dinétah,...

Officer Jim Chee is drawn into his Navajo heritage as he investigates the bizarre theft of a box of trinkets--a theft that endangers his life as well as the life of a young schoolteacher.

"Navajo tribal cops Joe Leaphorn (Wes Studi) and Jim Chee (Adam Beach) delve into the netherworld of illegal archaeological excavations, purloined pots, and slain pot hunters, set against a backdrop of Navajo witches, spirits, and lore."

Legendary detectives Leaphorn and Chee are pulled into mysteries old and new in this haunting tale of obsessive greed, lost love, and murder from the "national literary and cultural sensation" (Los Angeles Times)—New York Times bestselling author Tony Hillerman.

"Tony Hillerman's novels are like no others. His insightful portrayal of the vast Navajo Reservation, the spirit-haunted people who inhabit it and the

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