Navajo Fiction

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.

What happens when danger and love collide under a Navajo moon? The search for a woman who disappeared in 1906 has lead cultural anthropologist Erin Dawson to Cedar Canyon, where the iconic terrain of red rock walls and mesas keep Navajo traditions - and maybe criminal evidence - well hidden. When Erin's search leads her to cross paths with tribal policeman Adam Silverhorn, it's hardly love at first sight. But everywhere she turns, Adam is already there.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Considered one of Zane Grey's best novels, The Vanishing American was originally published in serialized form in the Ladies Home Journal in 1922. It reveals Grey's empathy for the Native American and his deep concern for the future survival of that culture.

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.

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.

¿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.