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There was a house made of dawn. It was made of pollen and of rain, and the land was very old and everlasting.

— N. Scott Momaday House Made of Dawn (1968)

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Every six or seven years there is a great harvest of piñones far to the east of town. That harvest, like the deer in the mountains, is the gift of God.

House Made of Dawn (1968)

YAHWEH
Nothing will come of [evolution], as it has come from nothing.

In the Bear's House (1999)

The sun is at home on the plains. Precisely there does it have the certain character of a god.

The Way to Rainy Mountain (1969)

The imaginative experience and the historical express equally the traditions of man's reality.

The Way to Rainy Mountain (1969)

The stories that I keep close... are those that yield more and more of their spirit in time.

The Man Made of Words (1997)

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