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Officer Jim Chee--without in any way diminishing the stark power and somber integrity that have distinguished previous exploits of the Navajo Tribal Police. While
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who wants to improve health of the Navajo people, will kill Chee. Yellowhorse assumed Chee would figure out his scheme, as Irma
Onesalt had. Yellowhorse was cheating by claiming reimbursements months after patients died at the clinic or went home healthy, so she had to be killed. Yellowhorse returns to the clinic and goes straight for Chee, both threatening Chee's life and confessing what he did. The woman, the grieving mother arrives next with her shotgun, and kills Yellowhorse, the skinwalker, just as Leaphorn arrives. Yellowhorse first arranged for men to be killed whose names were on Irma Onesalt's list. Then, he had her killed and next set the bereaved mother toward Chee. Agent Streib is already working on tracing the financial crimes. They guess he will not think to trace down which patients Yellowhorse persuaded to kill the four victims, as the mother attacked Chee, but that is okay, it is over.
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liver cancer. She did not call the public defender for her father. Janet Pete says Mr. Curtis
Atcitty called her, but Bistie told her he knew no such man. Pete thinks this Atcitty used her to get Bistie out of jail both before he might talk to the police and so he could be killed. Another client, Irma Onesalt, was shot 10 days after she approached Pete for help on her list.
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parked in the night and the footprints of a small person. This is added to the list of unsolved homicides facing Lt. Joe
Leaphorn, who asks that Chee be assigned full-time to aid him in solving the homicides of Irma Onesalt, Dugai Endocheeney, and Wilson Sam, and to find who shot at Chee. Captain Largo agrees.
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Franklin Begay: He is taken from
Badwater Clinic by Chee as a favor to Irma Onesalt, so he could testify in meeting about land ownership. Irma Onesalt criticized Chee for bringing the "wrong Begay", as he had not been the one whose family had lived on the land, when Chee came to return the man to the
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Yellowhorse from Mrs. Billie at the desk. He then proceeds to his meeting at
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The belief or superstition of skinwalkers involves the skinwalker somewhat magically blowing a bit of bone into a victim, who will die unless the skinwalker is killed. Bistie's daughter thinks her father had been trying to kill a skinwalker, to regain his own life, which would end soon by untreatable
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The first connection among these homicides comes when they learn that
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Dr. Vigil tells Leaphorn that Emma has a brain tumor. Surgery will reveal its status, and tell the odds of her surviving the tumor, forcing him to accept hope again. Then, the reason for the homicides falls into place, and he must get from Gallup to Badwater Clinic, because Dr. Yellowhorse, the man
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Randolph Jenks: A pathologist at the US Indian Service hospital in Gallup, he who analyzes the bead found in Chee's trailer, the old bovine bone bead. Irma Onesalt had contacted him before she died about diseases and their proper course of treatment, and her list of names where she sought date of
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Bahe Yellowhorse: A medical doctor, he runs the Badwater Clinic on the reservation. His mother was Navajo, his father was Oglala Sioux. He was adopted from a Mormon orphanage by a wealthy family when his mother died young. He inherited wealth and uses it to subsidize the clinic. He claims to be a
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Jim Chee wakes from restless sleep about 2:30 am, hearing the cat enter through the cat door into his trailer. When Chee is out of bed, three shotgun blasts come through the trailer wall over his bed, tearing apart his mattress instead of him. In daylight, he finds where a vehicle leaking oil had
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Mrs. Eleanor Billie: She works at the front desk of Badwater Clinic. She looked up October 3 death of Frank Begay after Chee picked up the "wrong Begay" (Franklin Begay) for Irma Onesalt, two months earlier. She also saw the list of people for whom Irma Onesalt was seeking dates of death shortly
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Wilson Sam: A Navajo man, 57 years old, he was hit in the head by a shovel, dragged to the edge of Chilchinbito Canyon in Arizona, and pushed over the edge. His body was found by his nephew. Death was estimated about the same time Endocheeney was murdered. He was a herder of sheep, and sometime
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Leaphorn and Chee go to Bistie's home to talk again, after he was set free by public defender Janet Pete. No one is home, evidence exists of someone recently dragged out of the hogan. As they follow tracks outdoors, someone shoots Leaphorn in his right arm. After he is taken to the hospital at
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Ironwoman: At the Badwater Wash trading post, she shares information about Endocheeney with Chee, and the word that a piece of bone, corpse bone, was found in one of the knife wounds, like the trademark sign of a skinwalker. She is a Navajo of the Jewish
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distinguished previous exploits of the Navajo Tribal Police." The writing is "lively and extremely descriptive" and author Hillerman was "a master of character, scene, and plot". A
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Irma Onesalt: A Navajo woman, 31 years old, she worked in the tribal social services office. She was murdered, shot as she drove her car on a road between Upper Greasewood and
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that we all identify what we are convinced is a sure-fire thing. It was a bestselling author and a mystery genre. But I was sort of surprised there was as much resistance."
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