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.
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
The Navajo refer to themselves as the Dine,' or Dineh literally meaning "The People."
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.
The Federal Bureau of Investigations has concurrent jurisdiction with respect to enforcement of Federal law with the Bureau of Indian Affairs in "Indian Country." The tribes that are legally recognized by the Federal government have semi-autonomous status with respect to administering the land within its confines.