The Man who Killed the DeerA novel of a Pueblo Indian caught between the ritual ways of his tribe and the alien 20th-century world of the white man, this is the story of a man who lives as a stranger in both. |
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adobe Angelina Arapahoe beat beautiful began belly Benson beside blanket Blue Corn body breath buckskin Byers Cacique cañon cedar ceremonial Cheyennes chokecherries church cigarette cold colored cottonwoods dance dark Dawn Lake deep deer door drum earth Estefana eyes face faith Father fire Flowers Playing Government hair hand head heart horse Indian killed Kiowas kiva knew land legs listened living looked Manuel Rena Martiniano Mexican moccasins Mother Mother Earth mountains Napaita Native American Church Navajo night Oreja Palemon Panchilo Peyote Road pine piñon plaza pueblo quietly rattle rode rose round sheepherder Shell Boy shirt silence singing sleep slope slowly smiled snow squatted stalked staring stood strange stream Strophy suddenly talk tall tepee thing thought trader trail trouble turned voice waited walked wall watched wife wild woman women wrapped yellow young