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With characteristic style and grace, Tony Hillermandescribes the intangible yet powerful aura of the Southwest, America'ssacred land, while photographer Bela Kalman captures its beautythrough his color photographs. The book is a tribute to a land wherethe land's spirits are as real as it inhabitants.

Now in its third printing, 'Indian Country: America's Sacred Land'isnow available exclusively from the University of New Mexico Press.

"First Man spread a blue blanket on the ground, shaped the mountain,pinned it to the earth with a magic flint knife, decorated it withgems of turquoise, and assigned another 'yei' from the Navajo pantheonof spirits, Turguoise Girl, to live on Mosca Peak, forever guardingthe Navajo from the evils that might disrupt their harmony with theuniverse. There, in the poetry of the Navajo creation story, thebluebirds nest. And there the morning mists form the holy House Madeof Dawn." --Tony Hillerman ... Read more

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Three classic Tony Hillerman mysteries in one volume--Skinwalkers, A Thief of Time, and Talking God--represent the apex of the author's award-winning fiction. 25,000 first printing. $25,000 ad/promo. ... Read more

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Navajo detective stories
This book was purchased by my husband to replace his paperback one.We live in SW CO and have been thru the Navajo Reservation and know all the locations that are written in this book.So your mind can just picture whats going on just like watching tv.This book is hard to put down once started.Great reading ... Read more

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Set of three books by Tony Hillerman: The Fallen Man, The First Eagle, and Finding Moon ... Read more

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Despite Second Lieutenant Benoit's protests against his government's heartless treatment of the Indians, he carries out his military duties, until he is rescued from death by a Sioux warrior who teaches him the Native American way of life. ... Read more

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Edgar Award-winning writer Tony Hillerman has earned a reputation as a Grand Master of the popular mystery. This is the first full-length examination of his work. One of the most successful contemporary American writers, Hillerman has made his stories of Native American detectives instrumental in understanding modern American life. Through the creation of his Navajo detective characters, Hillerman has given new vigor to the popular genre of mystery with his treatment of the problems of order and identity in modern society. This study examines each of his 13 novels in turn and includes a biographical chapter and a chapter on his innovations in the genre of detective fiction. ... Read more

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great read, good bargain
It's always good to get a bargain, and extra good to enjoy the book. The stories are well written and hold your attention. There is also a lot of local information as well as a lot of history. I love the story plot as well as the way the author weaves a lot of tradional lore and intermingles it with the possiblilites. He gives you a picture of another culture and involves us in their lives.

Three Joe Leaphorn Mysteries
---"The Blessing Way"---

"He stirs, he stirs, he stirs, he stirs,"

"Among the lands of dawning, he stirs, he stirs.
The pollen of dawning, he stirs, he stirs.
Now in old age wandering, he stirs, he stirs.
Now on the trail of beauty, he stirs,
Talking God, he stirs..."
It is in the 1970's pre-cell phone where parallel lives take place. We have an Indian wanted for a stabbing who turns up dead. Not just dead but in the wrong place. Not the wrong place but in a mysterious way. There is also a team of archeologists looking into which craft (they just may find it). One archeologist seems to be missing. A strange Navaho has his hat stolen but the silver hat band left. A woman is coming to visit her fiancé is in for an adventure she did not count on. From all of this Joe Leaphorn must make some sort of sense.
It is the descriptiveness of Tony Hillerman that goes beyond the mystery to pant a picture of a different world that we get to glimpse in the process of reading.
Read the book but the addition of the voice of George Guidall ads a dimension to the story by helping visualize the people and correcting pronunciation of certain words. I suggest you read the book and listen to the recorded version.

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---"Dance Hall of the Dead"---

The Fire God is missing

Twelve-year-old Ernesto Cata (Zuñi) is practicing to be the Fire God in a local ceremony. His best buddy George Bowlegs (Navaho) is a Zuñi wana-be.

Ernesto is missing and there is a pool of blood by his bike. The next day his buddy George runs off. It is up to Sgt. Joe Leaphorn to find the boys before anything happens to them (if it has not already.)

As with most of Hillerman's novels everyone has different agendas and stories that overlap. There are alleged stolen artifacts form and archeological dig, and possibly a drug interest. They may or may not interact. We also get a good dose of Zuñi culture, and a feel that we are in the area.

Hillerman is nice enough to leave sufficient clues to let you figure out the mystery before Leaphorn and you then get to watch as he finally comes around to your way of thinking.

Another book by Hillerman "The Boy who Made Dragonfly" further describes the dance hall of the dead (Kothluwalawa.)

Author's Note:
"In this book, the setting is genuine.The village of Zuñi and the landscape of the Zuñi reservation are depicted to the best of my ability.The characters are purely fictional.The view the reader receives of the Sha'lak'o religion is as it might be seen by a Navajo with an interest in ethnology.It does not pretend to be more than that."
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A great cliff hanger

Joe Leaphorn can put the loose ends together even when no one else realizes there are loose ends.The story starts out with an old man being bludgeoned and later Leaphorn is intentionally almost rundown by a mysterious man in gold rimed glasses.He tries to tie these together.Then he uses an old robbery as an excuse to get out of a Boy Scout commitment and track down the antagonist.Needles to say the story gets more convoluted for everyone but Leaphorn.
This is an excellent story with the added plus of the description of the area and the Navaho that occupies this area.What seems at first to be over description later enhances the final scenes.
Speaking about the location and Navaho, even the schools, this story is even more enjoyable if you read "Seldom Disappointed" first.Tony describes how he comes by the plot and the people.He even goes out to locations first as research.
I have read the book but the addition of the voice of George Guidall adds a dimension to the story by helping visualize the people and correcting pronunciation of certain words.I suggest you read the book and listen to the recorded version.


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A great cliff hanger
Joe Leaphorn can put the loose ends together even when no one else realizes there are loose ends. The story starts out with an old man being bludgeoned and later Leaphorn is intentionally almost rundown by a mysterious man in gold rimed glasses. He tries to tie these together. Then he uses an old robbery as an excuse to get out of a Boy Scout commitment and track down the antagonist. Needles to say the story gets more convoluted for everyone but Leaphorn.
This is an excellent story with the added plus of the description of the area and the Navaho that occupies this area. What seems at first to be over description later enhances the final scenes.
Speaking about the location and Navaho, even the schools, this story is even more enjoyable if you read "Seldom Disappointed" first. Tony describes how he comes by the plot and the people. He even goes out to locations first as research.
I have read the book but the addition of the voice of George Guidall adds a dimension to the story by helping visualize the people and correcting pronunciation of certain words. I suggest you read the book and listen to the recorded version.
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Renowned author Tony Hillerman's original essays writtenfor New Mexico and Rio Grande plus two new essays arecomplemented by the extraordinary images of Muench and Reynolds. ... Read more

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Wonderful writing, great photos, bad print job.
If Only!

If only this book had been printed by the National Geographic Society, or Arizona Highways, or somebody who specializes in scenic calendars.The fabulous photos in here deserve top quality printing, and they didn't get it.

However, I heartily recommend this book to all my fellow Hillerman fans, *anyway*, because the essays are great, and the background information on some of the events that inspired scenes in certain of the novels is priceless.If you loved 'A Thief of Time' as much as I did, you'll very much enjoy the descriptions of the actual site that inspired it.Hillerman's 'travelogue' down the Rio Grande is also wonderful.

If you love New Mexico, buy this book
If you ever read books of Tony Hillerman, be sure to take a look at thisbook. His love of the state of New Mexico is well known by readers of theJim Chee/Joe Leaphorn Mysteries, but this book is about the overwhelmingbeauty of the state. The vast open spaces, the silence and the history.This collection of essays together with the outstanding photographs is amust. ... Read more

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Having sold over one million copies of his Navajo crime novels, Tony Hillerman has developed a huge reputation with mystery fans. The unique mix of Navajo culture and police work is the subject of John Sobol's first-ever biography of Tony Hillerman. From his childhood spent in Oklahoma, to his journalism/public relations career; from his return to school, to his success as a best-selling author, Tony Hillerman: A Public Life offers rare glimpses of a fascinating and highly varied life. ... Read more

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Tony Hillerman endorses this richly evocative new series that portrays theday-to-daylives ofNative Americans in the west during a volatile time ofbetrayals great and small. The FortLaramie Treaty of 1851 called for a reallocation of tribal lands in the Plains. Anticipating that the U.S. Government would make good on its promise of hefty sums to make up for their loss of property, a number oftribes stood on the threshold of history.

- Englade is an Edgar Award-nominated author. ... Read more

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Navahos and more
This time we confront a different Pueblo People the Hopi. In the Hopi there are sect or Koshari societies; they do not practice curing; they are concerned with fertility and growth. Their religion is more personal than public and clans are most important.

Along With a new people we are treated to a piece of history; The Spanish had a tradition of The Canes of Office here. Governors and lieutenant governors and the like were issued a cane as a symbol of office. Ten years after the Gadsden purchase. The Indians stayed neutral curing the Civil War. So President Abraham Lincoln has some canes made of black ebony and crowned with silver inscribed with his signature, "A. Lincoln." These where given the nineteen different pueblos, each cane had the pueblo name on it.

Tony Hillerman spins his magic once more in this story of missing people and a death that may be related or religion and again maybe just down right greed. Chee and Leaphorn bust work together to find meaning and reason. In the Hillerman tradition all the clues are laid out in the open allowing you to bet them to the conclusion if you can.

Good companion book for this story is "American Indians of the Southwest" by Berth P. Dutton


American Indians of the Southwest
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New Mexico Territory, 1858. A place and a time where justice means life or death and bloodthirsty renegades ride free. He Who Hears Like a Coyote leads a rogue group of Chiricahua Apaches out for American blood. A pack of scalp hunters, captained by Jim Morehouse, is determined to collect the bounties the government has put on Apaches. ... Read more

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In 1858 New Mexico Territory
In a land of wild beauty, two factions collide, the Chiricahua Apache and a group of U.S. renegade soldiers.This is a gripping continuation of, People of The Plains saga. Fascinating tales of the frontier told in all their glory and shame. you'll love the other books in this series. ... Read more

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Same elements with a different slant
Could this solve the mystery of a person missing for many years? Retired Joe Leaphorn is given a retainer to find out the circumstances. He enlists the help of Jim Chee.

Chee has his plate pretty full trying to juggle his love life, being acting LT., dealing with an overzealous assistant. On top of that, he has to compete with a boring snob of an authority in tracking down cattle rustler(s).

As usual, all the clues are laid out in the open and if one works at it, they may be able to peace the puzzle together before Joe or Jim. It is fun watching how it is reviled to them. We also have plenty of what makes Hillerman famous and that is descriptions of the Four Corners area and the Navaho way. I appreciate this as I have spent many a summer watching Ship Rock from Mesa Verde.

Listening Woman (Joe Leaphorn Novels)
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