Chapters 1-4 Summary

Jim Chee is a tribal police officer who recently took the exams to enter the FBI. Chee was accepted, but cannot decide if he wants to enter the white man world and become an FBI agent, or remain in the Indian culture and become a Navajo yataalii.

In chapter 1, a bacteriologist is looking out the window of her lab when she sees an Indian man park his truck in a reserved parking spot. The bacteriologist then sees a blond man come up to the truck and leave a paper sack in its bed. A short time later, a wrecker comes to remove the truck from the illegal parking spot. When the truck is lifted by the wrecker it explodes. In chapter 2, Jim Chee arrives at the home of B.J. and Rosemary Vines. Chee notices two grave stones next to the...