Diné (Navajo) · Dinétah — the Diné sheep camp, wash, and mesas
The heroes of this story.
In a hurry, with a monster to find — probably. Learns the hardest thing: to sit, watch, wait — and that bravery is for putting things back the way they belong.
Smaller, calmer. "Bravery is not for winning." Loops the string into a star while the Kid's makes a knot.
Warm browns, white-tipped tail — the flood's foam marked her. Last through the reed because she stopped to gather seeds; carries the seeds of a whole new world in her feathers; covers the Kid with her wing. She does not speak.
Tells the old telling: how Turkey was last through the reed, and everyone laughed at the slow bird.
The Kid is in a hurry — he has a monster to find, probably — and laughs loudest when the elder tells how slow Turkey was last through the reed. But Tązhii shakes seeds from her feathers: corn, beans, squash, melon — the seeds of a whole new world. When the Kid's charging scatters the sheep, he does the hardest thing he knows: sits, watches, waits — then herds them home slowly, the way herding is really done. He plants four kernels — gray, blue, black, red, one for each direction. Hózhó: balance, beauty, the world put right.
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