Read but especially re-read Tony Hillerman

Beyond the rather banal police plots, the real heroes of Tony Hillerman's novels are the Native American tribes, especially the Navajo, torn between traditionalism and the modern world.
I loved reading Tony's novels a few years ago (the reason for Kokopelli, my avatar), but above all, I love reading his books again.
Yes, they are not very accessible at the first reading, not everyone masters the Navajo vocabulary and their culture light years away from modern Europeans. If the first immersion in this universe is difficult, when you come back to it later, the pleasure of discovery is replaced by the pleasure of really appreciating this world, because you understand it much better now, you have never forgotten it, I personally never left it.
Traveling the dusty trails of the Four Corners with Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee, we get to know the Navajo tribes and their very special world. Around a hogan hidden in the middle of stunted juniper trees, we feel more than we understand the beliefs and traditions of a people who roamed these lands long before the white man brought them syphilis and whiskey.
Since I accompanied Jim in his caravan on the edge of an arroyo, now when I hear the wind in the leaves of an aspen tree I am transported to this region whose austerity hides to my eyes an incredible richness.
There are days when I would like to be a Navajo, not the one who turns his back on his land to look for work in Phoenix or Albuquerque, but the one who walks the slopes of Black Mesa away from a world where CO² is the enemy and AI the future.

Read Tony Hillerman, and don't stop at the first pages, the initial investment is the key to this fascinating world.