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Pueblo refers to Native American towns in the southwestern United States, as well as the Indigenous people who live there. These groups are known as the Pueblo people, while the locations are simply pueblos.
Pueblo Quotes in House Made of Dawn
The House Made of Dawn quotes below are all either spoken by Pueblo or refer to Pueblo. For each quote, you can also see the other terms and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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10. The Night Chanter, February 20
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We went up there on the hill, him and me, with Tosamah and Cruz. There were a lot of Indians up there, and we really got going after a while. […] Somebody built a fire, and we heated the drums until they were good and you could really hear them. Mercedes Tenorio had some turtle shells and she started doing a stomp dance.
You can forget about everything up there. […] We could see one whole side of the city, all the way to the water, but we couldn’t hear anything down there. All we could hear was the drums and the singing.
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[Tosamah] doesn’t know how it is when you grow up out there someplace. […] You grow up in the night, and there are a lot of funny things going on, things you don’t know how to talk about. A baby dies, or a good horse. You get sick, or the corn dries up for no good reason. Then you remember something that happened the week before, something that wasn’t right. You heard an owl, maybe, or you saw a funny kind of whirlwind […]. And then you know. You just know. Maybe your aunt or your grandmother was a witch. Maybe you knew she was […]. You just know, and you can’t help being scared.
11. The Dawn Runner, February 27
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They must learn the whole contour of the black mesa. They must know it as they knew the shape of their hands, always and by heart. […] They must know the long journey of the sun on the black mesa, how it rode in the seasons and the years, and they must live according to the sun appearing, for only then could they reckon where they were, where all things were, in time. […]
These things he told to his grandsons carefully, slowly and at length, because they were old and true, and they could be lost forever as easily as one generation is lost to the next, as easily as one old man might lose his voice, having spoken not enough or not at all.
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Pueblo Term Timeline in House Made of Dawn
The timeline below shows where the term Pueblo appears in House Made of Dawn. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
1. The Longhair, July 20
...sets a snare using the reed. He continues on with the horses, singing a traditional Pueblo song as he brings them onto the road to San Ysidro.
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2. The Longhair, July 21
...1937, Francisco wakes the 17-year-old Abel before dawn and they travel to Sia, a neighboring Pueblo nation. A local man gives them coffee while they wait for dawn. When the sun...
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The story shifts to explain the Eagle Watchers Society, an important group among the local Pueblo nations. It is the principal ceremonial organization of the Bahkyush, immigrants from the city of...
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4. The Longhair, July 25
...sacrifices his horse and the rooster to create cultivated plants and domestic animals for the Pueblo people.
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