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82) Flood song
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Description
Native traditions scrape against contemporary urban life in Flood Song, an interweaving painterly sequence populated with wrens and reeds, bricks and gasoline. Poet Sherwin Bitsui is at the forefront of a new generation of Native writers who resist being identified solely by race. At the same time, he comes from a traditional indigenous family and Flood Song is filled with allusions to Dine (Navajo) myths, customs, and traditions. Highly imagistic...
Author
Series
Ella Clah mysteries volume 13
Description
"Navajo Police Special Investigator Ella Clah is called in on the murder of Valerie Tso, who was drowned in her bathtub. Not only is Valerie the daughter of Ella's mother's best friend, but she also is the mother of Boots, who takes care of Ella's daughter after school. Although Valerie was estranged from her family, Ella is determined to find her killer and quickly." "A Bible verse on a scrap of paper left near the body reminds Ella of a case she...
85) Navajo long walk
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Forced to leave their home for an internment camp in New Mexico, Kee and his family must learn to adapt.
Forced to leave their home for an internment camp in New Mexico, Kee and his family must learn to adapt
Author
Description
It is July 7, 1985, and Indians from across the country are gathered at Big Mountain, Arizona, for the sun dance, a brutal and intensely spiritual ceremony of self-sacrifice. They are gathered to offer strength to the hundreds of Navajo Indians who have refused to be relocated from their homes in this rugged, isolated land in defiance of a government program to settle a land dispute with their neighbors the Hopi Indians. The Wind Won't Know Me takes...
87) Tricked
Author
Series
Iron druid chronicles volume 4
Description
Cutting a deal with a trickster god rarely goes well for any human brave or foolish enough to try it, but Atticus doesn't feel like he has a choice. With members of the Norse pantheon out for his blood, he can't train his apprentice in peace, so he asks Coyote to help him fake his own death. The cost, however, might wind up being every bit as high as if he'd made no deal at all. There are things hiding in the Arizona desert that don't want any company,...
89) Ancient blood
Author
Series
Navajo nation mystery volume 3
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
Charlie Yazzie's former archaeology professor becomes the target of a ruthless Indian rights movement - one determined to end an investigation that could change the face of an ancient tribe. Charlie and Thomas Begay find themselves caught up in a dangerous, intrigue filled adventure, involving one of the canyon-land's oldest riddles.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1992, c1990
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 6
Description
High school junior Marcus feels his entire world changing around him as Henry, the Navajo foster brother who has lived with him since the age of seven, starts to change his personality and wonder if he should return to his family's reservation in another state.
94) Mojado
Author
Series
Navajo nation mystery volume 4
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
R. Allen Chappell takes a bold new direction with this thriller, raising storytelling and knowledge of the Navajo culture to an entirely new level. When Mexico's bloodiest predator invades the reservation, it's up to Charlie Yazzie and his friends to take charge the Navajo way. Navajo can track prey, but can Charlie, Thomas, and Harley Ponyboy catch the killer before he catches them?
95) Wolves of winter
Author
Series
Navajo Nation mystery volume 6
Pub. Date
2017
Description
An ancient and disabled girl--a seer from the past--becomes the key to two murders on the Dine Bikeyah. Survival alone driver her people. But greed takes the reins as we ride alongside our friends Charlie Yazzie, Thomas Begay and Harley Ponyboy in this vivid and compelling journey into two worlds. The Dine soon discover wolves are still among us when archaeology and murder entwine in this latest canyon lands thriller.
97) Shooting Chant
Author
Series
Ella Clah mysteries volume 5
Pub. Date
[2000]
Description
Former FBI agent, now special investigator with the Navajo Police, Ella Clah knows it's her police training, not the special gift of sensing she's supposed to have inherited from her clan ancestors, that accounts for her unease when troubling things begin happening on the reservation. Lab reports on pregnant women have been stolen from the health clinic, a Navajo guard at the LabKote factory has been murdered, and two native leaders have been kidnapped....
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Description
"No Native American groups placed more emphasis on the horse in their lives than did the Navajo and Apache of the Southwest. They Sang for Horses examines how storytellers, singers, medicine men, and painters created the animal's evolving symbolic significance by adapting existing folklore and cultural symbols. Exploring the horse's importance in ceremonies, songs, prayers, customers, and beliefs, Clark investigates the period of the horse's most...
99) Death Walker
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2003.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 19
Description
Returning to the Navajo Reservation and solving her father's murder taught former FBI Agent Ella Clah a great deal about herself and her people, the Dineh. She has begun to accept that that there is more to the world than can be explained by FBI training and forensic science. Newly hired as a Special Investigator with the tribal police, Ella investigates the brutal murders of several of the Dineh's "living treasures," Navajos esteemed for their knowledge...