Arrow to the Sun

The second book I came across was called Arrow to the Sun: A Pueblo Indian Tale, by Gerald McDermott. This book seemed to not only have an accurate depiction of a cosmological match between the cosmological link of a Sun God, but the building structures were accurately illustrated as well (see below)

In the story, which as you may be able to see from the pictures above is brightly colored and illustrated, there is a boy who is seen without a father and he becomes picked on when he is actually the sun of the Sun God. I found a connection between this premise and that of the Pawnee which is a native group I have been focusing my studies on. The connection is that anyone who was seen without a known father was considered an outcast. I felt sad for those people for they were among other outcasts which were comprised of lazy people and those who were being accused of witchcraft, and survivors of scalping who were actually considered very powerful and feared (Sutton, 269).



Work cited:

McDermott, Gerald. Arrow to the sun: a Pueblo Indian tale. New York: Viking Press, 1974. Print.

Sutton, Mark Q. An Introduction to Native North America. Boston: Pearson Publishers, 2012. Print.

"Pueblo Indian Dwellings." U.S. History Images. N.p., n.d. Web. 20 Mar. 2013. <http://ushistoryimages.com/pueblo-indian-dwellings.shtm>.