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Author
Series
Ella Clah mysteries volume 14
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
351 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Ella Clah is no longer an unsure young woman recently returned to the Navajo Reservation from a stint with the FBI; she has found her place in her tribe, her clan, and her family. She has seen the Diné at their worst--and at their best--as they balance the modern era with the traditional Navajo way of life. Ervin Benally, son-in-law of the powerful Navajo businesswoman and politician Abigail Yellowhair, plans to bring satellite telephone service...
Author
Series
Ella Clah mysteries volume 5
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
349 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Wierd things are happening on Special Investigator Ella Clah's Navajo reservation to livestock and then to people. The rift between Navajo traditionalists and modernists show signs of becoming explosive. Ella is caught as usual between them.
Author
Series
Ella Clah mysteries volume 6
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 19
Physical Desc
348 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Ella Clah, special investigator with the Navajo Tribal Police, splits her time between cases and her toddler daughter. A recent puzzling convenience-store robbery, an enigmatic e-mail warning, a vengeful outlaw on the loose, a newly assigned Hopi FBI agent, and Ella's strange-acting police partner all underscore Ella's own intuitive sense that something bad will happen.
Author
Series
Ella Clah mysteries volume 13
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
304 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Navajo Police Special Investigator Ella Clah has seen a lot of death in the decade since she returned to the Reservation, but nothing quite as bad as the latest violent murder of a young Navajo woman. Something about the crime scene reminds Ella of her days in the FBI, and she calls on Agent Dwayne Blalock for help. And thats not the only link to Ellas pastclues indicates that Ellas father may have tried to stop this killer before his own murder,...
Author
Series
Ella Clah mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
1998, c1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 17
Physical Desc
369 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
When the daughter of Senator Yellowhair is killed in a suspicious car accident, the Senator accuses Ella and the tribe's medical examiner, Dr. Carolyn Roanhorse, of tampering with evidence and falsifying the autopsy results. An outbreak of meningitis leads to more trouble when many of those who are vaccinated begin dying from an unknown disease. Riots between Indian and White workers at the Navajo-owned mine stretch the resources of the tribal police...
Author
Series
Ella Clah volume 12
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2007, c2006
Physical Desc
332 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
What did the dead man know? Jimmy Blacksheep, a Navajo member of the New Mexico National Guard recently returned from Iraq, is killed in what appears to be a carjacking gone wrong. But when Navajo Police Special Investigator Ella Clah receives a mysterious package in the mail, she begins to suspect that Jimmyś death is part of something larger. Ella finds she must use Navajo lore, not FBI cryptography, to decode Jimmyś message. Tantalizing clues...
Author
Series
Ella Clah volume 7
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2003, c2002
Physical Desc
376 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the Navajo tradition, Changing Woman represents life springing up from nothing. She is the ultimate hope of the world. She is Woman, who embodies all the mysteries of life.Changing WomanChange surrounds Navajo Police Special Investigator Ella Clah. The father of her child seems ready to be more of a father, though it will alter the rhythm of all their lives and may hurt his political career. Ella's mother, Rose, has rediscovered her passion for...
Author
Series
Ella Clah volume 9
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
382 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Is nuclear power the future for the Navajo? NEED, a consortium of businessmen, plans to open a uranium mine and nuclear power plant on the Navajo Reservation, providing cheap power and jobs. For many Dineh, the NEED project looks like a wonderful opportunity. But many others remember all too clearly the perils of uranium mining and the destructive potential of nuclear power.Councilmember Kevin Tolino hires a bodyguard after receiving threats because...
Author
Series
Ella Clah mysteries volume 9
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
333 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Navajo healers and members of the Plant Watchers society report that healing plants sacred to the Navajo are disappearing from the Rez, the tribal council asks Rose to catalog the plants and their growing places. She faces strong opposition from hataaliis reluctant to reveal their secret herb-gathering spots and from people who think the Rez should cultivate genetically engineered plants instead of native species. Rose finds evidence that many...
Author
Series
Ella Clah mysteries volume 11
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
253 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
FBI agent Andrew Thomas has disappeared after interrupting a Navajo ritual being performed by a group of medicine men or hataaliis. Navajo Police Special Investigator Ella Clah is assigned to the case over the objections of Thomas's supervisor, who unfavorably recalls Ella's time with the FBI and believes her to have received special treatment because she is Native American. Determined to find the missing man, Ella studies Thomas's latest case-a fraud...
Author
Series
Ella Clah mysteries volume 10
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2005, c2004
Physical Desc
320 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Before the new nuclear power plant can be built, the power company must help the Navajo reclaim a long-unused uranium mine. The plan is to collapse the old shafts and refill the area with new soil, but the first explosions trigger unplanned subsidiary collapses. Ella Clah, attending the dedication and purification ceremony, acts quickly when she sees a young child sliding into the exposed tunnels. She saves his life but is herself trapped underground....
Author
Series
Ella Clah mysteries volume 1
Publisher
FORGE
Pub. Date
1997, c1995
Physical Desc
429 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Blackening Song is the debut of Navajo FBI agent Ella Clah, who returns to the reservation to investigate the murder of her father, a minister. The ritual nature of the killing makes Ella's brother, a medicine man, the prime suspect. Without cooperation from the tribe, the FBI, or the local police, Ella must plumb the depths of the struggle between traditionalist and modernist forces among the Navajo to find her father's murderer.
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