Aging Storm Clouds: An Assimilation Memoir

His mother's neck broke while he vaguely watched . . .

The ocean that was once a blanket for the village, smothered the village and killed her sister . . .

And both wind up in a school that seemingly has the motto "From savage to civilized."

Hotah

Often getting pneumonias and being conceived by rape, Hotah lived in a Hopi village with his great-grandmother deep in her nineties but said, "The hell with a walking stick." His whole life, he had seen war sprout, such as witnessing his grandmother...