taku-wa-kin's

Updated: April 30, 2025

"Concerning that Talking Stick of Taku-Wa-kin's," said the Coyote, as the company settled back after Arrumpa's story, "there is a Telling of my people ... not of a Rod, but a Skin, a hide of thy people, Great Chief," he bowed to the Bull Buffalo, "that talked of Tamal-Pyweack and a Dead Man's Journey " The little beast stood with lifted paw and nose delicately pointed toward the Bighorn's country as it lifted from the prairie, drawing the earth after it in great folds, high crest beyond high crest flung against the sun; light and color like the inside of a shell playing in its snow-filled hollows.

Mary Hunter Austin - The Trail Book