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Series
Publisher
Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003.
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,...
2) Skinwalkers
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2002.
Language
English
Description
"Detective Leaphorn trusts hard facts. Officer Chee trusts ancient tradition. Their beliefs will be tested as they try to catch a mysterious killer." --container.
Publisher
New Video Group
Pub. Date
c2006.
Language
English
Description
Heartbreaking tale of the forced relocation of 12,000 Navajos from their ancestral homeland in Arizona that began in the 1970's and continues to this day. Witness as they take their protest to Congress and turn tragedy into acts of heroic resistance.
5) Coyote waits
Publisher
PBS DVD Video
Pub. Date
c2003.
Language
English
Description
In this adaptaton 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.
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
c2005.
Language
English
Description
Two Navajo policemen search for the truth behind the disappearance of an anthropologist suspected of selling ancient Indian artifacts on the black market, delving into the underworld of illegal archaeological excavations and Navajo superstition and lore.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A Weave of Time powerfully documents 50 years and four generations of change in one Navajo family. In 1938, noted anthropologist John Adair travelled to the Navajo reservation in Pine Springs, Arizona with a 16mm hand wind motion picture camera. There Adair met and filmed the Burnside family, creating a visual record of Navajo life in the 1930's. In an unprecedented composite, Adair's previously unseen historical footage is juxtaposed with contemporary...
9) Windtalkers
Publisher
Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006.
Language
English
Description
A battle-weary Marine Sergeant guards and ultimately befriends a young Navajo trained in the one wartime code never broken by the enemy, the Navajo Code.
Publisher
KUED 7
Pub. Date
c2008.
Language
English
Description
In 1864, thousands of Navajos were marched to a barren reservation in New Mexico near the Texas border called Bosque Redondo. During this long walk, many died along the way. After their relocation, the boarding school aftermath would shake the identity of the Navajo Indians.
Publisher
Groundswell Educational Films
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
The Return of Navajo Boy reunited a Navajo family and triggered a federal investigation into uranium contamination. It tells the story of Elsie Mae Begay, whose history in pictures reveals an incredible and ongoing struggle for environmental justice. A powerful new epilogue (produced in 2008) shows how the film and Groundswell Educational Films' outreach campaign create news and rally supporters including Congressman Henry Waxman, Chairman of the...
Publisher
KUED
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Long before Spanish conquistadors crossed the landscape, before trappers followed the rivers and streams, long before pioneering settlements dotted this region, before anyone else would try to write their history, five principle nations of indigenous people called the Great Basin area - now known as Utah - their home. Join KUED as we step into the extraordinary world of Utah's five tribes in five half-hour documentaries.
13) Stay away, Joe
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2007.
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.
Series
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
c2008.
Language
English
Description
Explores from the Native point of view the complex story of the role that the Native American code talkers and the Navajo language played in secret communications during World War II. No cryptography system proved as effective during the war as did the use of Navajo code talkers using their tribal language to transmit military communiques. Countless American lives were saved because of the service of these brave young Native American Marines.
Series
Story of America volume 1
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Great Indian leaders: In the late 19th century, four native Americans emerged to protect their people and culture. Crazy Horse, "Sacred Warrior of the Lakota," refused to bring his people into submission. Chief Joseph, "Guardian of the Nez Perce, " led his people on a 1700 mile flight from the U.S. Army. Geronimo, "Brillant Medicine Man of the Apaches, " used his powers to vanish and reappear, confounding pursuers. Quanah Parker, "Last Chief of the...
Publisher
AMC Studios
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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.
Publisher
AMC Studios
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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...
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