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Navajo Joe is a 1966 spaghetti Western film directed by Sergio Corbucci [3] and starring Burt Reynolds as the titular Navajo Indian who opposes a group of bandits responsible for killing his tribe. [ 4 ]
Joe Lee Kieyoomia (November 21, 1919 – February 17, 1997) was a Navajo soldier in New Mexico's 200th Coast Artillery unit who was captured by the Imperial Japanese Army after the fall of the Philippines in 1942 during World War II.
Joe Shirley Jr. (born December 4, 1947) is a Navajo politician who is the only two-term President of the Navajo Nation. He served as president from 2003 to 2011. He served as president from 2003 to 2011.
Navajo Lt. Joe Leaphorn of The Blessing Way who walks and talks softly is back again trying to find out why a youngster, George Bowlegs, also a Navajo, is missing while his friend from the adjacent Zuni reservation has been killed. George, a strung out, lonely kid with mystical inclinations, has been most recently attracted to the Zuni kachinas ...
Before he died in 2008, author Tony Hillerman wrote 37 books — 18 of which tell the fictional story of Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee of the Navajo Tribal Police. In 2022, AMC adapted Hillerman’s ...
Navajo cultural advisor George R. Joe explains the painful history, ... And the Navajo Nation is just one of many tribes that have taken steps to preserve their history: There are 574 federally ...
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.
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. Pursuing what begins as a routine police call, Leaphorn is nearly killed by the driver of a car.