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HOT LINES 62 4 est e er Long before Dances with WOlves, mystery writer Tony Hillerman was heralded for his sensitive treatment of American Indian culture. The best-selling author's reputation will no doubt grow with the release early next year of the first movie based on one of his novels. BY NO RMAN B oue HER "There's my hawk," Tony Hillerman says, then slowly I wondering what Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee, those two fic- I pushes his bulk up from the sofa and walks to the window. tional officers of the Navajo Tribal Police, would make of it. I You follow him, looking out into the dazzling light. Your The older and more laconic Leaphorn, a disbeliever in eyes adjust, taking iii the New Mexican scene: meadow, both spirits and coincidences, would find some rational ex- houses, cottonwood grove, and, in the distance, the blocky planation for the kestrel's presence - an abundance of ridge of the Sandia Mountains looming over the flat land- tasty grasshoppers, perhaps. At the .sarne time, the bird scape of Albuquerque. Hillerman watches a kestrel fly off in would remind Leaphorn of his wife, Emma, who, before her a straight line from a cottonwood branch. "That hawk will sudden death a few years ago, would have helped him sometimes sit just outside the window by my word proces- appreciate the grace behind this detail of the author and the sor when I'm working," he says. falcon. Jim Chee, on the other hand, would try to reconcile It's a colorful image, you think, this picture of an author the bird's natural history with its supernatural one, in the sitting before the winking cursor on his computer screen same way that he tries - not always successfully - to while a kestrel reads over his shoulder. A suggestive image. balance his identities as both police officer and Navajo Dutifully, you jot it down. Quite a coincidence, though, that "singer," or shaman. Yes, there would be a reasonable ex- the bird would show up just now, on the day of your visit. planation for the bird's presence, but Chee would also Probably no significance to that, unless ... Already you're search his memory for the role of CtmtinWid on Page 40 NORMAN BOUCHER IS A FREQUENT CONTRIBlITOR ms ARTICLE ABOUT MADAWASKA,MAINE. APPEARED IN THE SEPTEMBER 1 GLOBE MAGAZINE. I J ---- -- --- ~----- = providers in rural counties and, possibly, get jobs, sip punch, share cake, and joke dropped by 19 percent, accord- "We need more industry with the young women, There ing to the Alan Guttmacher In- and more skilled training pro- is a feeling of a future here, stitute, a family planning re- grams," says Callahan, the This fall Kathy M, enrolled at search organization, In Berk- coordinator of family services Berkshire Community College; e- shire County, for example, only for the Children's Health she hopes to become a social II_LaII,_ two doctors still perform abor- Program, "And then, we need worker, She has a new baby, _fII__ CloInII ......Bolr ·._fII_· for tions' Most rural counties have to provide more affordable and work has picked up for her no identified abortion services housing," Callahan also thinks husband, who has brought her - 0IJII0I. at aiL that the schools can playa piv- to the center for the occasion. _1AII1o _ fII__.__ People in the right-to-life otal role, both in preventing Cathy's boyfriend jokes fori ",.....,...,_ ........ movement and others often teen-age pregnancy and in that, now that she has aGED, , , ............ _ _ L.. :=-,=-' suggest adoption as the best helping teen-age mothers to she'll really think she's smart solution to the problem of finish high school, Her tutor recalls having to ... C LI.,I, :b teen-age pregnancy, But if Both Callahan and Chil- push her to do the work, but 1dtIl $. " GI there's one trend that social dren's Health Program director Cathy says she's not surprised service workers around New Linda Small are fighters for that she made it, "I always _-- ..._a_ England have seen in the past young mothers, "I think, in knew I was smart," she says, -l.-Cut) decade, it's that teen-age some ways, that pregnant As for Kate, Callahan says, IlpinIPerm l.--I mothers want to keep their ba- teens take a bum rap," Small well. maybe next time, when RJ ... ··(QIp) bies, Neither Cathy, Kate, nor ... e (Pail) says, "I have seen some very she's ready, Four young moth- IIl!Irap ~ a AppIIo, $lIO Kathy M, ever considered giv- 'caring, responsible young ers getting their GEDs may ~TIat $1<& ing her baby up, "No way am I .,......-.- $7 mothers coming out of the not make a dent in all the sta- going to go through nine program. The difficulty is that " $ e 8W tistics about teen-age pregnan- months to have a kid, and then they're coming into a culture cy, But Callahan knows the dif- - *" look at him and hand him over that doesn't value children and ference it will make in the lives - 811lCII to someone else," Kate says, women, and it doesn't support of these young women and jliOiel-r - (HftCeadlcaiea~ So it's a service such as the women having children." their families, Children's Health Program that Months later. on a steamy The Children's Health will make the difference for afternoon in July, Cathy and Program doesn't need to do ev- these families over the next Kathy M, are among a group of erything for young families, few years, When their children four mothers celebrating the Callahan says, "But we can 'FF _q/tItr are old enough to go to school, awarding of their GEDs, Dur- help them get through it. All SiIIoa~ 77N...-vSL. __ Cathy, Kate, and Kathy M, can 2lI2 _ . SrdP'loor ing a reception at the Chil- three of these girls are intelli- finish their own educations dren's Health Program, tutors gent, and they're survivors." • stuck at a kachina dance at a will accommodate him - and pueblo," he says, "I've got four several weeks later resched- West seller characters up on a roof watch- CONTINUED FROM PAGE 18 ules the unfinished mystery for ing this kachina dance, and I 1993, Since 1970, HarperCol- don't quite know what they're lins (formerly Harper & Row) the kestrel in Navajo mythol- going to do next," has published 10 novels about ogy, Was it an omen of some He looks hemused as he Hillerman's Navajo cops, Joe kind? What message from the says this, his voice drawling Leaphorn and Jim Chee. Over spirit world did it bring, and over the syllables, betraying the same period, Hillerman's what would .this.in turn reveal .his rural Oklahoma boyhood. following has grown from a about a man sitting at a word Nothing 'in his demeanor sug- small cult to a mass audience, processor iu his Albuquerque gests that he is feeling the His last three novels have study? Just what did this bela- slightest pressure about finish- made The New York Times gaana, or white man, know of ing the book, At the same time, best-seller list Michael Dorris, traditional Navajo beliefs? his attitude suggests that he author of The Broken Cord and Finally, similar questions has complete confidence in his a professor of Native American would nag at both Leaphorn ability to solve the problem, It studies at Dartmouth, has com- and Chee.