Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn is a fictional character in the Leaphorn & Chee Series. He is a Navajo man with a strong sense of tradition which he picked up from his maternal grandfather who instructed him on the ways of the Navajo.
Lieutenant Leaphorn uses this knowledge to solve crimes and catch culprits by relating nature and man as the Navajo believe that the two are interdependent and so cannot do something without the other being affected.
