BROKEN CIRCLE: TRUE STORY OF MURDER AND MAGIC IN INDIAN COUNTRY by Rodney Barker, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

The Broken Circle describes the horrifying events surrounding the Chokecherry Massacre that occurred outside of Farmington, New Mexico in the early 1970s. In this small town bordering the Navajo Reservation there had always been racial tensions between the whites and the Indians. It all came to a head one horrible week when three Indians were found in the desert, murdered and mutilated. The most shocking part of the story came later when three high school teens were arrested for the crime. Barker's narrative chronicles the relationship between the whites and Indians, and how each culture deals with the crime in their own way. Charles Bowden in the New York Times describes how Barker is able to penetrate the elusive nature of Navajo culture: “Mr. Barker is able to peek behind the veil that protects their powerful sense of spirituality from alien eyes." | BROKEN CIRCLE: TRUE STORY OF MURDER AND MAGIC IN INDIAN COUNTRY by Rodney Barker, Paperback | Indigo Chapters