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A Navajo girl unravels a day's weaving on a rug whose completion, she believes, will mean the death of her grandmother.

Parapsychologist Cree Black is called in to work with Tommy Keeday, a student at a school for gifted Navajo teens, after he falls victim to an illness with terrifying symptoms, which his family believes are caused by a hostile spirit.

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...

Joe Leaphorn, grieving over the death of his wife, resigns from the tribal police force, but when an archaeologist disappears and Leaphorn learns Jim Chee is investigating, the lieutenant becomes involved.

Retired Police Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn returns to put together the clues from his last unsolved case--a mystery involving the disappearance of a priceless Navajo rug--without the help of Jim Chee and Bernie Manuelito, who are on their honeymoon.

A "sinister pig" is boss of the sty: the pig who guards the trough and attacks any other animal trying to eat from it. There is a sinister pig in control of the pipelines of drug smuggling between the U.S. and Mexico. But in this business, one can only stay on top for so long. When the struggle for power dumps a corpse onto tribal lands, it gets the attention of Sergeant Jim Chee and his retired partner, Joe Leaphorn. Now the sinister pig must either...

A thriller about a fight waged by Indians living on a New Mexico Navajo Indian reservation against a huge oil company and their gas wells on the land. The company has turned off wells on the reservation which has cut off all payments to the Indians, negatively impacting their survival and quality of life. Attorney Danny Whitehorse is approached about the gas wells by the Indians asking for help and is then pursued over the Four Corners area by the...

A group of activists is determined to do whatever is necessary to stop the building of a nuclear power plant--assault, sabotage, domestic terrorism. When a fellow Navajo Police officer is injured in an attack aimed at Ella Clah's boyfriend, Ella vows to do whatever it takes to find the terrorists and bring them to justice.

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.