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
McClarnon plays Joe Leaphorn, a veteran officer of the Navajo Tribal Police and one half of the Indigenous crime-solving duo Leaphorn & Chee, the protagonists of a long-running series of mystery novels by Tony Hillerman.
From New York Times • Jun. 12, 2022
As I said before, Hillerman was not a smart man.
From The Clean and Wholesome Land by Sholto, Ralph
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