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In People of Darkness, HillermanÆs protagonist Jim Chee is a Navajo police detective. Educated and skilled at his work, Chee still struggles through the course of the mystery with learning to understand the ways of white people compared to American Indians. In this effort, we are pulled into the world of American Indians who must cope as a minority in a dominantly white world. We see this in CheeÆs exchange with Mary Landon, ôThe statement surprised Chee. One defined himself by his family. How else? And then it occurred to him that white people didnÆtö (Hillerman 105).
In conclusion, though anthropological and factual accounts of American Indian culture provide u
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