1. Navajo Nation

3. Four Corners

4. Four Corners

5. Map of Navajo Nation
“Checkerboard
Reservation”

6. The Navajo Reservation
Radio Station

9. Mt. Taylor

10. Window Rock is the capital of the Navajo Nation
Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee are stationed here, about 70 miles from Crownpoint

11. Shiprock
The Shiprock office of the Navajo Tribal Police does the preliminary investigative work on the Victor Todachene hit-and-run case

12. Tuba City (Arizona)

13. Jim Chee was stationed here on his first assignment
Crownpoint
Jim Chee was stationed here on his first assignment
The Navajo jail in Sacred Clowns is in Crown Point

14. Thoreau, New Mexico

15. A Navajo Hogan

16. Pueblo Indians

17. Tony Hillerman How did you get started writing mysteries?
“I was on a convalescent furlough after World War II and got a job driving a truckload of oil field equipment from Oklahoma City to an old oil well on the Checkerboard Reservation... I was driving across the country near Crown Point where I encountered a group of Navajos... After I unloaded the stuff, I asked a rancher what was going on. He told me a couple of the Navajo Marines were back from the Pacific, and they were having a curing ceremony for them. Would they mind if I went? They said "No, if you stay sober and behave yourself." I was tremendously impressed by it. I thought that's a great way to welcome your men back from the war. I never forgot. That was “

18. Navajo Codetalkers

19. Kachina doll