The great man is he who does not lose his child's heart.Mencius
“But as long as you remember what you have seen, then nothing is gone. As long as you remember, it is part of this story we have together.”
Laguna Pueblo writer · born 1948
Laguna Pueblo novelist and storyteller whose Ceremony (1977) is a central work of Native American literature. Her writing weaves story, land, memory and healing into a single fabric, in the Pueblo oral tradition.
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