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Skinwalkers is a crime novel by American writer Tony Hillerman, the seventh in the Joe Leaphorn/Jim Chee Navajo Tribal Police series, published in 1986. The film version, Skinwalkers , was adapted for television for the PBS Mystery! series in 2002.
Skinwalkers is a 2002 mystery television film based on the novel of the same name by Tony Hillerman, one of his series of mysteries set against contemporary Navajo life in the Southwest. It features an all-Native cast, with Adam Beach and Wes Studi playing officers Jim Chee and Joe Leaphorn . [ 1 ]
Jim Chee is one of two Navajo Tribal Police detectives in a series of mystery novels by Tony Hillerman. [1] Unlike his superior Joe Leaphorn, the "Legendary Lieutenant", Chee is a staunch believer in traditional Navajo culture; indeed, he is studying to be a traditional healer at the same time that he is a police officer.
The Navajo story centered on the Navajo clan who encountered the men, who chose to enter an area considered taboo, full of Navajo witches and skinwalkers, [1] (also discussed in Hillerman's earlier novel Skinwalkers) and needed cleansing ceremonies after the white men were found dead. The novel also refers to the Vietnam War, which ended in ...
Skinwalkers (1986) The Ghostway is a crime novel by American writer Tony Hillerman , the sixth in the Joe Leaphorn / Jim Chee Navajo Tribal Police series. It was first published in 1984 and features Jim Chee.
Harvard University removed human skin from the binding of "Des Destinées de L'âme" in Houghton Library on Wednesday after a review found ethical concerns with the book's origin and history.
Listening Woman is a crime novel by American writer Tony Hillerman, the third in the Joe Leaphorn/Jim Chee Navajo Tribal Police series, first published in 1978. The novel features Joe Leaphorn.
Skin-walker stories told among Navajo children may be complete life and death struggles that end in either skin-walker or Navajo killing the other, or partial encounter stories that end in a stalemate. [2] Encounter stories may be composed as Navajo victory stories, with the skin-walkers approaching a hogan and being scared away. [7] [8]