Hillerman
Americannoun
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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.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 29, 2025
The show also starred John Hillerman as the stuffy British army veteran Higgins, who manages the estate that Magnum uses as his base.
From Washington Post • Aug. 8, 2022
So what does it mean to be playing this role today, in 2022, versus when those previous Hillerman movies aired in early aughts on PBS?
From Salon • Jun. 26, 2022
The show, based on the Leaphorn and Chee books by Tony Hillerman, is set in 1971 and follows tribal police officers investigating a series of perhaps unrelated crimes.
From New York Times • Jun. 9, 2022
A battery of loudspeakers carried it even into the foyer where Pardeau stopped and turned on Hillerman.
From The Clean and Wholesome Land by Sholto, Ralph
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