The Blessing Way (Leaphorn & Chee #1)

by Tony Hillerman

Just another poor soul who didn’t quite know how to be a Navajo and couldn’t learn to act like a white. No good for anything.”

But Navajos didn’t hurry. In fact, there was no word in the Navajo language for time.

“California Navajo. That’s what had me hung up. I was expecting him to act like The People and all he knew about The People he must have got out of a book.”