I always have one or two, sometimes more, Navajo or other tribes' cultural elements in mind when I start a plot. In Thief of Time, I wanted to make readers aware of Navajo attitude toward the dead, respect for burial sites.
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Calistan
I took three days to drive down one street
The radio on, tuned to the big fleet
Invisible planes are cracking the concrete
Thats just what some people say
I put down my blanket on cigarette butt beach
I saw the old man, he was doing ok
Hes making his last stand
On old bottles and cans
round there, calistan way
Used to be sixteen lanes
Used to be nuevo spain
Used to be juan wayne
Used to be mexico
Used to be navajo
Used to be yippy-ay-i-dont know
Went in from the weather when I got wheezy
I play some pachinko I play pachisi
And st. anne is still making it breezy
In the valley of tar that once was l.a.
And my best friend hes the king of karaoke
He struck up a chord and he took it away
Out of the pan
And into japan
round there, calistan way
Used to be sixteen lanes
Used to be juan wayne
Used to mexican
Used to be espano nuevo
Used to navajo
Used to be yippie-ay-i-dont know
song performed by by Frank Black
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If you want to see what your body will look like tomorrow, look at your thoughts today.
A rocky vinyard does not need a prayer, but a pick ax.
I have been to the end of the earth, I have been to the end of the waters, I have been to the end of the sky, I have been to the end of the mountains, I have found none that are not my friends.
Always assume your guest is tired, cold and hungry, and act accordingly.
There is nothing as eloquent as a rattlesnake's tail.
Native American Navajo proverbs
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You cannot see the future with tears in your eyes.
Native American Navajo proverbs
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We do not inherit the land from our ancestors, we borrow it fromour children.
It's impossible to awaken a man who is pretending to be asleep.
Native American Navajo proverbs
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A rocky vineyard does not need a prayer, but a pick ax.
Native American Navajo proverbs
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You can't wake a person who is pretending to be asleep.
Native American Navajo proverbs
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You can't wake a person who is pretending to be asleep. Navajo
American Indian proverbs
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I have been to the end of the earth. I have been to the end of the water. I have been to the end of the sky. I have been to the end of the mountains. I have found none that are not my friends.
Native American Navajo proverbs
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I grew up knowing it's wrong to have more than you need. It means you're not taking care of your people.
We need only look to our Navajo Code Talkers during World War II to see the value that Native languages bring not only to their culture, but to the security of all Americans.
quote by Rick Renzi
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Coyote is always out there waiting, and Coyote is always hungry.
Native American Navajo proverbs
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Dzit Bizhi Adini, I
[In the Navajo Language the
title is 'Mountain with no name.']
Part 1
Let us go, you and I,
To the Henry Mountains,
Way up high, tracking bison
At 10,000 feet; purebred bison,
That can hear our bare feet, and scatter.
No one to alarm us,
Since love has been breeding
Like the bison over the continent.
But I have to ask whether I love you:
If you are a calyx I do;
If you are but a shankshaft I don't know; if you are a morel who's to say.
And what if we happen to intertwine,
High on sunlit limestone porches, in those
Nameless Mountains.
Would the bison be
Aware?
poem by Stan Petrovich
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