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    The Navajo Nation Police (formerly known as the Navajo Tribal Police) is the law enforcement agency on the Navajo Nation in the Southwestern United States...
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    The Navajo Nation (Navajo: Naabeehó Bináhásdzo), also known as Navajoland, is a Native American reservation of Navajo people in the United States. It...
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  • Indian tribal police are police officers hired by Native American tribes. The largest tribal police agency is the Navajo Nation Police Department and the...
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  • and nonfiction works, best known for his mystery novels featuring Navajo Nation Police officers Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee. Several of his works have been...
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    2021[update], the Navajo Nation is the largest federally recognized tribe in the United States; additionally, the Navajo Nation has the largest reservation...
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    reported to have reached the Navajo Nation. The virus then spread rapidly through the Navajo Nation to the point that the Navajo, in 2020, had a higher per...
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  • HBO. The series follows a group of recruits for the Navajo Police Training Academy in Navajo Nation, over the course of a year. Additionally following...
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  • Navajo Cops is a "reality" television series about the real life Navajo Nation Police. It is produced for National Geographic Channel by Flight 33 Productions...
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  • Jim Chee (category Fictional Navajo people)
    Jim Chee is one of two Navajo Tribal Police detectives in a series of mystery novels by Tony Hillerman. Unlike his superior Joe Leaphorn, the "Legendary...
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  • Joe Leaphorn (category Fictional Navajo people)
    mystery writer Tony Hillerman. He is one of the two officers of the Navajo Tribal Police who are featured in a number of Hillerman's novels. The other officer...
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    various bands of Cherokee Indians and the badges of Navajo Nation Police (as well as other police). The Bennington flag, a historical American Flag, has...
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    Ben Shelly (category Members of the Navajo Nation Council)
    president of the Navajo Nation. He was the first president to have been elected both president and vice president of the Navajo Nation, as well as the...
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    The Ramah Navajo Indian Reservation (Navajo: Tł'ohchiní) is a non-contiguous section of the Navajo Nation lying in parts of west-central Cibola and southern...
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  • The 1989 Navajo Nation Council Reforms, also known as the Title II Amendments were a series of Constitutional changes to the government structure of the...
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  • Hillerman's book A Thief of Time, his eighth mystery novel featuring the Navajo Nation Police, anthropologist Eleanor Friedman-Bernal dropped off her mail at the...
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    transported on tribal lands. For example, in the event of a vehicle stop, Navajo Nation police will seize any loaded firearm found to be accessible to the driver...
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    term Chairman of the Navajo Nation. MacDonald was born in Arizona, U.S. and served the U.S. Marine Corps in World War II as a Navajo Code Talker. He was...
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  • The Navajo Rangers (formed 1957) is an organization of the Navajo Nation in the Southwestern United States, which maintains and protects the tribal nation's...
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    disputes from 1940 to 1970 or earlier, the two nations used to share the government designated Navajo–Hopi Joint Use Area, but this continued to be a...
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  • American writer Tony Hillerman, the first in the Joe Leaphorn/Jim Chee Navajo Tribal Police series. First published in 1970, it introduces the character of officer...
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  • Albert Hale (category Navajo Nation politicians)
    Arizona House of Representatives from 2011 to 2017. A member of the Navajo Nation, Hale was elected as the tribe's president in 1994. He served until...
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  • Agencies, the state had 141 law enforcement agencies employing 14,591 sworn police officers, about 224 for each 100,000 residents. Arizona Counter Terrorism...
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    Manuelito (category Articles containing Navajo-language text)
    Enemy") to other Diné, and non-Navajo nicknamed him "Bullet Hole". Manuelito was a prominent Navajo leader who rallied his nation against the oppression of...
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  • Skinwalkers (2002 film) (category Films set on the Navajo Nation)
    sure about their return. Well schooled in urban policing, he is soon confronted with a particular Navajo case: a mysterious killer who has a special antipathy...
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  • Leaphorn/Jim Chee Navajo Tribal Police series, first published in 1978. The novel features Joe Leaphorn. Pursuing what begins as a routine police call, Leaphorn...
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  • Dark Winds (category Articles containing Navajo-language text)
    the series was renewed for a third season. The series follows two Navajo police officers, Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee, in the 1970s Southwest. The first...
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    Chinle, Arizona (category Populated places on the Navajo Nation)
    Chinle (Navajo: Chʼínílį́) is a census-designated place (CDP) in Apache County, Arizona, United States. The name in Navajo means 'flowing out' and is a...
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    named characters. The Navajo Nation on which the story takes place, abuts a geographical area known as the Four Corners. The nation spans the connecting...
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    Kinsale Drake (category Navajo Nation people)
    playwright, performer, and writer. Drake is Diné and a citizen of the Navajo Nation. In September 2023, Drake was one of five winners of the 2023 National...
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    on the Navajo Nation. Domestic violence is defined not only as violence but also any form of abuse in a domestic setting. Incidence on the Navajo Reservation...
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