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2) Navajo moon
Series
Publisher
Films for the Humanities
Pub. Date
1988.
Language
English
Description
Filmed on location, this program provides an inside look at the lives of three Navajo children living on a reservation in New Mexico. Examines their diverse life-styles and their shared sense of the importance of ancient Navajo customs.
Publisher
AMC Studios
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Formats
Description
The year is 1971 on a remote outpost of the Navajo Nation near Monument Valley. Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn of the Tribal Police is besieged by a series of seemingly unrelated crimes. The closer he digs to the truth, the more he exposes the wounds of his past. He is joined on this journey by his new deputy, Jim Chee. Chee, too, has old scores to settle from his youth on the reservation. Together, the two men battle the forces of evil, each other, and...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
810L
Language
English
Description
Required by her Navajo people to take part in a womanhood ceremony, Crystal is disheartened when the rug she has been weaving for the event is stolen and believes that someone in her tribe who disagrees with her beliefs is to blame.
6) Skinwalkers
Series
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
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.
7) Windtalkers
Language
English
Description
A battle-weary Marine is assigned to guard - and ultimately befriends - a young Navajo soldier who has been trained to be a code talker. This code, the Navajo code, and the men who knew the code, were to be guarded as they went into action. It was the unspoken duty of the Marine to kill the Navajo soldier before he could be taken prisoner of war by the Japanese. This is the one wartime code that was never broken by the enemy.
8) Coyote waits
Series
Publisher
Distributed by PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
In this adaptation of Tony Hillerman's novel, Navajo police detective Joe Leaphorn and officer Jim Chee solve a modern murder and a bank robbery supposedly committed by Butch Cassidy.
9) Windtalkers
Publisher
Music Video Distributors
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
In the Pacific theater during World War II, a Marine is assigned to protect a Navajo codetalker.
Publisher
AMC Studios
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Formats
Description
In Season Two, Lt. Joe Leaphorn reunites with Jim Chee, his former deputy turned private eye when their separate cases bring them together in pursuit of the same suspect. They find themselves in the high desert of Navajo Country chasing a killer.
11) A thief of time
Series
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2004, [2009]
Language
English
Description
Lt. Joe Leaphorn & Jim Chee, two officers of the Navajo Tribal Police, investigate the disappearance of an anthropologist suspected of selling ancient Indian artifacts on the black market.
13) Dark wind
Publisher
Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
The popular hero of several Tony Hillerman best-sellers, Navajo cop Jim Chee, is a student of the old ways who wanted to be a medicine man before he became a lawman. Now as a cop covering the Arizona Territories belonging to the Hopi and Navajo Indians, he's torn between both worlds. When the badly mutilated victim of a Navajo skinwalker is found on Hopi land, Chee is suddenly plunged into a world of mystery filled with drug dealers, F.B.I. agents,...
14) Stay away, Joe
Publisher
Turner Entertainment Co
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Just when Navaho rodeo star Joe Lightcloud has it all figured out, his plans go up in smoke. His idea about raising cattle on the reservation is a good one. But you know that great chow Joe and everyone else enjoyed at the community party last night? Turns out somebody's barbecued the herd's only bull! Where Joe goes, trouble follows.
Publisher
Metro Goldwyn Mayer
Pub. Date
[2006].
Language
English
Description
Platoon: A middle-class college student volunteers for the war in Vietnam because he considers it his patriotic duty. The first thing he encounters on the airport tarmac in Saigon is a cart of body bags. It's downhill from there: endless hikes, ditch-digging, heat, rain, bugs and snakebites, fear and confusion, sleeplessness, and terror when he finally sleeps. He will only gradually, unknowingly, become an adequate soldier--one who has left innocence...
