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The Blessing Way
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Essay Topics
How does The Blessing Way conform to and depart from the traditional genre of hard-boiled detective fiction? Are McKee and Leaphorn traditional detectives? Why or why not?
Examine the different techniques Leaphorn uses as a policeman working in the Navajo Nation. How does his deep understanding of his people both hinder and impede his investigations?
The novel was written in 1970. How does it reflect the concerns of Indigenous people in the US at the time? What policies did the Bureau of Indian Affairs enact at that time, and how did people respond?
