If you believe in the power of words, you can bring about physical changes in the universe.

If you believe in the power of words, you can bring about physical changes in the universe.

The Kiowas reckoned their stature by the distance they could see.

There was only the dark infinity in which nothing was. And something happened. At the distance of a star something happened, and everything began. The Word did not come into being, but it was. It did not break upon the silence, but it was older than the silence and the silence was made of it.

A word has power in and of itself. It comes from nothing into sound and meaning; it gives origin to all things.

For the storyteller, for the arrowmaker, language does indeed represent the only chance for survival.

They have assumed the names and gestures of their enemies, but have held on to their own, secret souls; and in this there is a resistance and an overcoming, a long outwaiting.