Historical December 1988 report or notice. Original dates, prices and contacts describe the source period; current availability has not been established.
Continuing our exploration of Native American lore, there are several excellent books available at the Kiosk which we want to recommend. Tony Hillerman is the author of Skinwalker which takes the reader into the canyons and onto the mesas of the Southwest.
The Washington Post calls Hillerman “one of the superior and definitely distinctive mystery writers of the past fifteen years.” And Kiosk patron Christine Smith says, “those who have read any of Tony Hillerman’s Navajo detective stories receive a short course in Navajo ethnography and meet either Lt. Joe Leaphorn or Sgt. Jim Chee of the Navajo tribal police. Skinwalker brings them together in a story of contrasts and interaction between the tribal police, the local police and the FBI.” Another Hillerman novel, Getaway, deals with. the Federal witness relocation program and is considered one of the author’s finest.
In another, Dancehall of the Dead, an Indian boy disappears while he is performing a ritual Navajo dance. Douglas C. Jones in Season of Yellow Leaf writes about a ten-year-old frontier girl abducted by Comanche Indians in a raid in ‘1830.
At first the girl is resentful and afraid until she adjusts to the Comanche culture.
She is given the name of “chosen” by the Indians and when she grows into womanhood she marries a great Indian warrior, Iron Shirt, and they have a family.
The atmosphere is skill: fully detailed. Other books by Jones are A Creek Called Wounded Knee, Elkhorn Tavern, and the Barefoot Brigade.
With the Holiday season nearly upon us, we want to send greetings from the Kiosk to one and all.
Originally published in The Times of Skinker-DeBaliviere, December 1988.
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