This new noirish crime drama centres the indigenous Navajo experience, says Amanda Whiting, and is all the better for it
rewinds the clock to the 1970s, when the Indians were still the Indians, and the white man was the bad guy. But as a foe, Whitover seems almost quaint. Surely he’s no match for Leaphorn or, for that matter, capitalism’s brutal indifference. “I’ll pretend your bank robbers are Navajo, if you pretend my two murder victims are white,” the lieutenant tells his FBI counterpart as he bargains for justice. If the American West is dying, it’s not the Indian who killed it.
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