“I tend to have two sorts of fans,” Tony Hillerman observed in a 1986 interview with Sue Bernell and Michaela Karni: “One kind are the mystery readers, who care more about plot. The other kind I call 'desert rats.'” Since then, howeve...
Tony Hillerman grew up during the Depression in the small, farming community of Sacred Heart, in Potawatomie, Oklahoma. His father's farm came without indoor plumbing, tractor, or electricity. The nearest library was thirty-five miles away and the once-a...
Tony Hillerman "created the American Indian policier," according to critic Herbert Mitgang in the New York Times. Hillerman also "breaks out of the detective genre," as Daniel K. Muhlestein noted in the Dictionary of Literary Biography. "He is a writer o...
Sacred Clowns is a 1993 novel by Tony Hillerman. It involves koshares, or sacred clowns, which the book is named after. the story also involves several homicides and the relationship between Jim Chee and Janet Pete. The book involves the characters Joe...
One of the most provocative exhibits in the Heard Museum of Native American Culture in Phoenix, Ariz., is a four-figure sculpture enclosed in a large glass case on the main floor. The complex sculpture was created by a Native American Pueblo artist, Roxanne Swentell,...
Norrell, Brenda Indian Country Today (Lakota Times) 07-28-2004 Long stretch in an Indian car, 500 years is long enough TEMPE, Ariz. - Keith Secola has just put a $20 bill in the stamp machine and now has a handful of Sacagawea coin dollars....
