29 quotes
Just before Mammedaty's time the Kiowas had been brought to their knees in the infamous winter campaigns of the Seventh Cavalry, and their Plains culture... virtually destroyed.
The Names: A Memoir (1976)
And Mariano fell and was exhausted. Fransisco held his stride all the way... and even then he could have gone on running, for no reason, for only the sake of running on.
House Made of Dawn (1968)
YAHWEH
Poor Man, he had been trying so hard to talk, for such a long time. Then the children went out and played together. At the end of the day they had possession of language.
In the Bear's House (1999)
...and Abel was running. Against the winter sky and the long, light valley of the landscape at dawn, he seemed almost to be standing still, very little and alone.
House Made of Dawn (1968)
Something in me hungers for wild mountains and rivers and plains. I love to be on Bear's ground... And Bear is welcome in my dreams, for in that cave of sleep I am at home to Bear.
In the Bear's House (1999)
I had a horse named Pecos... Pecos could outrun all the other horses in the village, and he always wanted to prove it. ...My Kiowa ancestors, who were centaurs, should have been proud ...
In the Presence of the Sun (1992)
I came to know the land by going out upon it in all seasons... until it became the very element in which I lived my daily life.
In the Presence of the Sun (1992)
When my parents and I moved to Jemez I was twelve years old. ...The village and the valley, the canyons and the mountains had been there from the beginning of time, waiting form me.
In the Presence of the Sun (1992)
I was a Child, and I Listened.
House Made of Dawn (1968)