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“Father, what are you to do now?”Triton’s sneer grew scarier. “She broke the law.” turning away from the terrified faces of his daughters. “She must die.”
“A Time Comes When Silence is Betrayal.”
“Thunderbird ascended on the heady currents of air that bore her high above the vast landscape of Túwaqachi. She stretched her broad wings, the heat lifting her through the silence, her glossy brown...”
“The early morning sunshine shot up the ice-covered valley. It glinted off the backs of slumbering mastodon, reflected between the antlers of caribou.”
“For whom do you cry, my son?” the Great Spirit asked.“I do not know.”“Yes, you do.”
“This is a time of change,” the Shaman said. “This is a time of enormous power.”
“Do you understand the meaning of the soil beneath your feet?”
“The Sun Dagger appeared on the rock face directly above the Shaman’s shadowed head. It dazzled within the shade as the sunlight slipped through a gap in the overhead slabs. The dagger cut slowly do...”
“The other Clans will soon arrive. The greatest times of our family are before us. And so are the darkest.”
“One large cat bounded up the side of the outcrop to stand in full view on an overhanging boulder. She stared down at them, inside their protective enclosure, tilting her head from side to side. Her...”
“We the People . . . The People of the Long House.”
“The Day of Trouble is Near”
“We must love our slaves, Papa. We must love them as hard as we are able.”
“West Point—The Key to the Continent and Independence.”
“No words in our ledgers could do justice to this sublime beauty,” Captain Lewis said. “The expedition should have brought a camera obscura.”Peter wasn’t familiar with the words, but no matter. He k...”
“I refuse to believe the people of Texas and all Americans in the world have forgotten us.”
“Do not fret, my brother, my child. For the buffalo will roam the plains once more.”
“We live in a complicated society, Bromley—one that is changing and which does indeed need to change. But do you not think any change must begin within our own family gathering?”
“Rainbow Cloud strode forward like a hunting cat with the same strength of height and broad shoulders, the same rolling gait as First Light’s father. They were indeed the same man, split in two at b...”
“The Sleepin’ Fox Catches No Poultry.”
