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I know how much he loved that animal; I think I know what was going on in his mind: If you will give me my life and the life of my family, I will give you the life of this black-eared horse.

— N. Scott Momaday The Way to Rainy Mountain (1969)

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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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