The Navajo
From the North they came; in large numbers they travelled,
seeking out the Ancient Ones. Each tribe they encountered,
the same question they asked. The tribes could not
understand their tongue, like nothing they had ever heard, did it sound.
The tribes were eager to point them on their way –
they were eating the buffalo and the game.
Always they were sent South until they found what they had
been seeking: The Hopi, the ones they call the Ancient Fathers.
“Give us your wisdom and the memories of the Motherland.
For when it sank our culture was lost. We will be that
which will surround you, the way a teepee surrounds an elder
and shelters him from the wind.”
