With production booming in New Mexico, the Tesuque Pueblo reservation converted its 1950s-era gambling destination into Camel Rock Studios, booking AMC's 'Dark Winds' as its first high-profile project.
The Navajo refer to themselves as the Dine,' or Dineh literally meaning "The People."
Highpockets was a slang term used in the 1960's to refer to the earlier World War II generation who commonly wore extremely high-waisted pants with the waistband pulled up above the navel. The term coincides with a person who is given a position of high standing, but is completely undeserving for reasons of incompetence, ineffectiveness, or a broad ignorance of subjects that are at the core of his responsibilities.
A very young Lou Diamond Phillips played Jim Chee in The Dark Wind (1991) in 1991 which was also based on the Tony Hillerman book and also co-produced by Robert Redford. Phillips and McLarnon acted together in the Longmire (2012) series.
Tony Hillerman was named Special Friend of the Dineh by the Navajo Nation in 1987, which is a high honor, given that he is only non Native to receive that award.