Navajo Fiction

Pintar details the beautiful Navajo Nation’s landscape setting and the Navajo cultural conflicts. There is a basic history of how the Navajos are identified and counted for the census. Chile Charlie and his sidekick Dolly Sweet Thompson venture into the mysterious deaths of two Navajo vagrants.

When Mexico's bloodiest predator invades the reservation, it's up to Charlie Yazzie and his friends to take charge the Navajo way. Navajo can track prey, but can Charlie, Thomas, and Harley Ponyboy catch the killer before he catches them?

Nothing in Cree's experience as a Harvard-trained clinical psychologist or as a paranormal investigator has prepared her for Tommy Keeday's case. A talented young Navajo, Tommy has recently been exhibiting bizarre symptoms that his family believes are signs of possession by a chindi, a hostile spirit. As Cree struggles to find answers, she becomes increasingly aware that Tommy and the people who surround him have some deep and disturbing secrets.

When the local trader is found murdered the only clue points directly at Lucy Tallwoman. The FBI sweeps in to discover a decades-old trail of deceit and betrayal as the darker days of Lucy's past come back to haunt her. The family decides they need help . . . and fast.

Im Jahr 1941 entschließt sich eine Gruppe von jungen Leuten, gegen den Nationalsozialismus aufzubegehren und sich nicht dem Gleichschritt der Zeit unterzuordnen. Doch was wie der Versuch der Selbstbehauptung beginnt, entwickelt sich bald zum tödlichen Duell zwischen dem Willen zur Freiheit und der Unbarmherzigkeit von Gestapo und SA. Fliegerangriffe, lebensgefährliche Sabotageakte, Verhaftungen und Folterungen lassen den Kampf für Gerechtigkeit zum Alptraum werden, den nur wenige überleben.

An old silversmith's body is dumped along the highway, and Legal Services Investigator Charlie Yazzie isn't content to stand by while the FBI and Tribal look for clues—not when he sees his friends Thomas Begay and Harley Ponyboy sucked into a tightening web of evil.

Dreams tell old man Paul T'Sosi he's dying. So why is Navajo trickster Magpie trying to tell him a far more terrifying secret? Hungry for revenge, Ma'iitsoh Dine', the Navajo Wolf, is out for blood. Summoning his darkest powers, the Witch of Ganado circles tribal investigator Charlie Yazzie's young son and close friends. Some may survive the witch's evil vendetta, but others will die to settle an old score.

Bei einer Verkehrskontrolle entgeht Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn von der Navajo-Police nur knapp einem Mordversuch. Während er sich bemüht, den flüchtigen Täter ausfindig zu machen, wird ihm ein neuer Fall übertragen: ein Doppelmord in einem abgelegenen Hogan. Die alte Margaret Cigaret will ihn in einer Vision vorhergesehen haben. Leaphorn folgt den verschlungenen Wegen der beiden Fälle und findet sich bald in einem Labyrinth aus Täuschungen, Widersprüchen und Geheimnissen wieder – ein Labyrinth, das ihn in eine gefährliche Richtung zwingt.

Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn von der Navajo-Police ermittelt im zerklüfteten Canyon Country, beschattet von den scharfkantigen Felsen des Corn-Mountain-Massivs. Aus den Angelegenheiten der benachbarten Zuñi hält er sich eigentlich raus. Als aber zusammen mit dem jungen Zuñi Ernesto auch dessen bester Freund George, ein Navajo, verschwindet, wird Leaphorn hinzugezogen. Die beiden Jungen waren fasziniert von den Ritualen des Zuñi-Volkes und deren rachsüchtigen Göttern. Die aber, so heißt es, zeigen sich nur jenen, denen der Tod seine Aufwartung macht.

Elizabeth and Robert had faced erupting volcanoes. Burning buildings. But now they were about to encounter a force which chilled their hearts. The cruelty of one culture to another.

In the South Pacific in 1944 and 1945, military battles raged between the United States and Japan. Surrounded by rattling bullets and exploding bombs, a group of Navajo Marines sent secret messages back and forth. They used a code they had created from the Navajo language, a code the enemy was never able to crack. These young men had been recruited from their homes in the American Southwest. They brought with them incredible physical stamina and a language that had never been written down.

Cole and Stella have lived in Costa Rica for the last seven years. They wanted to believe that it was really over...but there were always doubts. And when Stella sees a horrifying vision in the jungle, she's certain that the Ancient Enemy has returned. David, living at his aunt's house in New Mexico, knows the Ancient Enemy is back; he can feel it. And now nightmares about a serial killer possessed by the Ancient Enemy plague him, a killer who will stop at nothing, a killer who is coming for David.

After a rancher finds 10 mutilated bodies at an archaeological dig site on the Navajo Reservation, both Captain Begay of the Navajo Tribal Police and Special Agent Palmer of the FBI become involved...but the case leads Palmer back up to Colorado where five more mutilated bodies and Stella's vehicle have been discovered at a burning cabin. Cole, Stella, and David escape the cabin, heading south. Stella believes David is a natural-born shaman, and knows their only hope of David ever defeating the Ancient Enemy is to find a reclusive shaman named Joe Blackhorn who can help train David.

By the time the United States joined the Second World War in 1941, the fight against Nazi and Axis powers had already been underway for two years. In order to win the war and protect its soldiers, the US Marines recruited 29 Navajo men to create a secret code that could be used to send military messages quickly and safely across battlefields. In this new book within the number one New York Times best-selling series, author James Buckley Jr. explains how these brave and intelligent men developed their amazing code.

In 1891, in the badlands of northern Arizona, Jed Cartwright, a bounty hunter and US Marshal, transports a dangerous prisoner back to the town of Smith Junction. As they travel through the woods, they are attacked by what they believe are skinwalkers. As Jed flees the woods, he finds a house where a family has been slaughtered. The only survivor is an eight-year-old Navajo boy, a boy traumatized by the horrors he has seen.

A century ago, the American Southwest was a region of savage natural beauty. There, the Navajo people worshipped the land, spinning folk tales into legends and prayers into songs. But besieged by US Army soldiers, the tribe was suddenly thrust into a battle that nearly destroyed the proudly woven fabric of its culture.

¿Crees en los ángeles?–Me preguntaron un día.–¡Claro que sí!–respondí de inmediato. Lo que jamás imaginé es que ellos, los ángeles, fueran a intervenir en mi vida de la forma en que lo hicieron. Esta podría ser la reflexión de Julio, el protagonista de Diamantes en la noche.

La primera temporada de «Ladrones de memoria» termina con Amanda aceptando que le borren los dos últimos meses de recuerdos para así poder recuperar su vida junto a sus hijos. Pero, de pronto, descubre que Manu está vivo y pide que le interrumpan el tratamiento.

When Kameron moves to his grandma’s sheep camp on the Navajo Reservation, he leaves behind his cell phone reception and his friends. The young boy’s world becomes even stranger when Kameron takes the sheep out to the local windmill and meets an old storyteller. As the seasons turn, the old man weaves eight tales that teach the deeper story of the Diné country and the Diné people.