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Skinwalkers is a 2006 action horror film. It was released in the United States by Lions Gate Entertainment and After Dark Films, and focuses on werewolves. Directed by James Isaac, it stars Jason Behr, Elias Koteas, Rhona Mitra, and Tom Jackson. The film was originally announced for theatrical release on December 1, 2006, but was delayed until ...
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 ]
Dark Winds is an American psychological thriller television series created by Graham Roland.Based on the Leaphorn & Chee novel series by Tony Hillerman, it stars Zahn McClarnon and Kiowa Gordon as the aforementioned two characters, leading a mostly Native American cast.
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.
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]
Joe Leaphorn is a member of the Navajo Tribal Police (now Navajo Nation Police). Educated in assimilationist Indian boarding schools operated by the Bureau of Indian Affairs, he is not as well versed in Navajo rituals, though he has attended the usual ceremonies.
Skin-walker is a human/animal shape-shifter from Native American legend. Skinwalker may also refer to: Skinwalkers, a 1986 mystery novel by Tony Hillerman Skinwalkers, a PBS Mystery! episode based on Hillerman's novel; Skinwalker, a 2003 comic book published by Nunzio DeFilippis, Christina Weir, and Brian Hurtt