Coyote Waits

From where we stand the rain seems random. If we could stand somewhere else, we would see the order in it.

Coyote is always out there waiting, and Coyote is always hungry.

The red light changed the color of her shirt, and her faded jeans, and her face. Her hair was disheveled, her expression intent, and, taken all together, she looked absolutely beautiful to Jim Chee. It would be a lot better, he thought, if friends didn't look like that.

Campbell’s The Power of Myth, Buchanan’s A Shining Season, Momaday’s The Way to Rainy Mountain, and Zolbrod’s Dine Bahane, which had seemed to her to be the best translation of the Navajos

I think from where we stand the rain seems random. If we could stand somewhere else, we would see the order in it.

This interruption broke the flow of whatever Redd was trying to tell them. And, by Navajo standards, such an interruption was rude. One let a speaker finish, and then waited to make sure he was indeed finished, before one spoke. But then Janet Pete was really Navajo only by blood and birth. She hadn’t been raised on the Reservation in the Navajo Way. Had

He saw what the origin mythology said of them as a metaphor. Some choose to violate the Way of the People, choosing incest, murder, and material riches over the order and harmony of the Navajo Way. Call them what you like, Chee knew they existed. He knew they were dangerous

Happiness was always on her side of the horizon, safely in Dinetah, safely between the Sacred Mountains. She never felt any need to learn what lay beyond them.

I wasn’t sure. Maybe something angry. I would be bitter if I was a Navajo to have anything in my territory named after Colonel John Macrae Washington. It’s like naming a mountain pass in Israel after Adolf Hitler.” “The colonel was a scoundrel,” Leaphorn agreed. “But I don’t let the nineteenth century worry me.” Bourebonette laughed. “If you don’t mind my saying so, that’s typically Navajo. You stay in harmony with reality. Being bitter about the past isn’t healthy.” “No,” Leaphorn said. “It’s not.