This is the way of The People, or the Dinee as they are called in Navajo. He teaches the Navajo way through his example. As the story progresses, Leaphorn teaches some valuable lessons about a man's character. Leaphorn credits his unusually savvy detective skills to the Navajo wisdom he was fortunate to learn from his grandfather.

Leaphorn's quest to save and exonerate the boy will challenge Leaphorn's logical mind. George has no one else to care for him when Ernesto's murderer kills George's alcoholic father. Due to local prejudices against the Navajos, Leaphorn quickly realizes that he is young George's only defender. Leaphorn believes that young Bowlegs is innocent and is also in danger of being murdered, just like his Zuni friend Ernesto Cata. Leaphorn's quest is to save the Bowlegs boy, who the prejudiced Zuni assume is the killer. The investigation takes Lieutenant Leaphorn from the Navajo hogan of the dead boy's missing friend, George Bowlegs, to a nearby hippie commune, to an archaeological dig site and finally to a sacred lake that in Zuni tradition is called the Dance Hall of the Dead. In order to find the murderer of a young Zuni boy, Navajo detective Joe Leaphorn will need to call upon his knowledge of Navajo and Zuni tradition and upon his incredible skills as a tracker. |1 .Dance Hall of the Dead is a detective story that takes place on Native American land. |a Leaphorn, Joe (Personnage fictif) |0 (CaQQLa)201-0474358 |v Romans, nouvelles, etc. |a Police |z Southwestern States |v Fiction. Three things complicate the search: an archaeological dig, a steel hypodermic needle, and the strange laws of the Zuni Indians.- |c (Source of description not identified). |a '#2 in the Joe Leaphorn series'-Container.

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