Hillerman

[hil-er-muhn]

noun

1. Tony, 1925–2008, U.S. novelist and anthropologist.

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With “Dark Winds,” even though Tony Hillerman was a white guy, we’ve recontextualized his books with a Native writers’ room, Native consultants, Native actors, Native directors.

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Created by Graham Roland, the AMC and AMC+ crime thriller is based on the “Leaphorn & Chee” novel series by Tony Hillerman.

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My advantage: I am a full-blooded and fluent-speaking Navajo, born and raised on the reservation alongside eight siblings in the 1970s — the time period in which “Dark Winds,” based on the series of novels by Tony Hillerman, is set.

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The first season of AMC and AMC+’s “Dark Winds,” a gritty crime drama based on Tony Hillerman’s Leaphorn & Chee books and set on a Navajo reservation, covers heavy topics such as murder, cultural genocide and kidnapping.

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The show also starred John Hillerman as the stuffy British army veteran Higgins, who manages the estate that Magnum uses as his base.

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