Editing Jim Chee (section)

== Profile ==

===Personal life===

Jim Chee is an acting sergeant in the Navajo Tribal Police when he first appears in ''[[People of Darkness]]'', working in the Crownpoint, New Mexico, office. He has two older sisters. His mother and his mother's brother (his little father) and her two sisters (his little mothers) are still alive and also part of his life. His uncle, Hosteen Frank Sam Nakai, is frequently helpful to Chee, whose advice runs through Chee's mind, and whose tapes of the words for various Navajo rituals aid Chee in memorizing them. From childhood on, Chee is remarked for his excellent memory, detailed and exact.

Chee's education is similar to that of Lt. Leaphorn, as he studied anthropology at the University of New Mexico and attended a boarding high school, described in ''[[People of Darkness]]''. In ''[[Coyote Waits]]'', Chee mentions that he took about seven years to graduate from college, as he had to skip a term to earn tuition money. Both came from families or clans with many singers, or ''yataalii''. Chee's Navajo name, given him by his maternal uncle, is Long Thinker. When Chee first appears in the novels, he is younger than the age Lt. Leaphorn appeared, and still a single man.

===Police work===
[[File:Navajo Police Chevrolet Tahoe.jpg|thumb|Jim Chee is a member of the Navajo Tribal Police (now [[Navajo Nation Police]])]]

Chee and Leaphorn first meet and work together in ''Skinwalkers'', when an attempt was made on Chee's life as he slept. Chee knows the reputation Leaphorn has for his success in police work, and after Leaphorn retires, Chee thinks of Leaphorn as legendary and always smarter than Chee is. Chee is willing to call on Leaphorn whenever he is stuck with a particular problem in a case.