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Papago Quotes

“This is a song the Papago Indians like to sing when they go traveling around somewhere: They have gone, The birds of the sky. They have gone, The animals of the earth, They have returned Along their own trail. On a white rock under the Moon, On a red rock under the Sun, On a black rock they sat, On a yellow rock they rested And looked back and saw butterflies, They looked behind them and saw A whirlwind, And they watched the whirlwind And it was a tree Standing in a cool shadow. They sit under the tree in the shadow, They sit under the still tree. (page 68, The Great Wheat Harvest)”

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Book:A Pima Remembers

Source: A Pima Remembers

“Where the mountain crosses. On top of the mountain, I do not myself know where. I wandered where my mind and my heart seemed to be lost. I wandered away.”

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Book:In the Trail of the Wind: American Indian Poems and Ritual Orations

Source: In the Trail of the Wind: American Indian Poems and Ritual Orations

“By the sandy water I breathe in the odor of the sea, From there the wind comes and blows over the world, By the sandy water I breathe in the odor of the sea, From there the clouds come and rain falls over the world.”

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Book:In the Trail of the Wind: American Indian Poems and Ritual Orations

Source: In the Trail of the Wind: American Indian Poems and Ritual Orations