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Dark Winds is an American psychological thriller television series created by Graham Roland.Based on the Leaphorn & Chee novel series by Tony Hillerman, it stars Zahn McClarnon and Kiowa Gordon as the aforementioned two characters, leading a mostly Native American cast.
Navajo Police: Class 57 is a 2023 American documentary series directed and produced by Kahlil Hudson, Alex Jablonski and David Nordstrom. It follows recruits for the Navajo Police Training Academy over the course of a year. It premiered on October 17, 2023, on HBO.
Basketball or Nothing is a 2019 American documentarian scripted reality television series on Netflix filmed in Chinle, Arizona. The premise revolves around the lives of the Chinle High School boys’ basketball team based on the Navajo Nation reservation, the largest reservation in America. [1] [2] [3] The series featured Raul Mendoza as coach ...
In 2022, AMC adapted Hillerman’s Navajo novels into a series titled Dark Winds. The show follows Lieutenant Leaphorn (Zahn McClarnon) and Deputy Chee (Kiowa Gordon) as they try to solve a string ...
Navajo cultural advisor George R. Joe explains the painful history, and present-day controversies, that shaped his work on AMC crime drama 'Dark Winds.' Stereotypes. Taboos.
Rez Ball is a 2024 American sports drama film directed by Sydney Freeland, who co-wrote the screenplay with Sterlin Harjo, based on the nonfiction sports novel Canyon Dreams: A Basketball Season on the Navajo Nation, by The New York Times journalist Michael Powell. LeBron James served as one of the producers.
The film was the highest rated program of 2002 on PBS. It is the first of three television films based on the same series of books, the other two being adaptations of A Thief of Time and Coyote Waits. It was repackaged in 2016 with the two following films as Skinwalkers: The Navajo Mysteries on Netflix. [2]
Jim Chee is one of two Navajo Tribal Police detectives in a series of mystery novels by Tony Hillerman. [1] Unlike his superior Joe Leaphorn, the "Legendary Lieutenant", Chee is a staunch believer in traditional Navajo culture; indeed, he is studying to be a traditional healer at the same time that he is a police officer.