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MANY MANY MOONS
WHIRLING-RAPIDS TALKS
The allegory, "Whirling-Rapids Talks," illustrates the tendency of the Indian to symbolize all the experiences of life. This personification of nature, of every bird that soars and every beast that walks or crawls, and this symbolizing of life by moon and sun, by water, thunder, and lightning, and by the star-people of the sky,—these are of the essence of his poetic thought. Because of his conception of the walking, the swimming, and the green-growing things of the wilderness, it is safe to say that no race has ever established a contact with nature more spiritual or more vital than has the American Indian.
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