The author was a Native American anthropologist and founding member of The National Congress of American Indians, as well as a recognized novelist. This book about pre-Hispanic Indian life in the Southwest focuses mainly on the religious and political life of a village faced with the drying up of the water that maintains the agricultural life of the people. Although the hero is a teen-age boy who travels into what is now Mexico to bring back seeds of a superior species of maize, and the Library of Congress cataloging says it is a children's book, I found it confusing to follow, and I am no child!

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