Kitt Peak
“The eagle was patient. Its eyes were sharp, and its mind clear. The eagle saw all from its perch, and all that it saw, it ruled.
The eagle was a god.
And the people worshipped it. And feared it, for the eagle was a vengeful god, one to take measures against those who invited its wrath.
And the people below, the Tohono O'otam, whom the white man called the Papagos, had angered the eagle.
The Tohono O'otam were a peaceful people, but this did not concern the eagle. It did not care... that they were at peace with themselves. The white man preyed on them, as did the Spanish before them. The eagle cared little for the gifts they left for it, the coiled baskets of devil's claw and yucca sewn over bear grass, the horsehair miniatures they left as tokens at the foot of its perch. The food they left, from their meager cultivation of the flood plains below, it ate but did not taste. For the eagle had little but derision for the Tohono O'otam, whom it considered weak, and it had only anger for them in its heart.MoreLess
The eagle was a god.
And the people worshipped it. And feared it, for the eagle was a vengeful god, one to take measures against those who invited its wrath.
And the people below, the Tohono O'otam, whom the white man called the Papagos, had angered the eagle.
The Tohono O'otam were a peaceful people, but this did not concern the eagle. It did not care... that they were at peace with themselves. The white man preyed on them, as did the Spanish before them. The eagle cared little for the gifts they left for it, the coiled baskets of devil's claw and yucca sewn over bear grass, the horsehair miniatures they left as tokens at the foot of its perch. The food they left, from their meager cultivation of the flood plains below, it ate but did not taste. For the eagle had little but derision for the Tohono O'otam, whom it considered weak, and it had only anger for them in its heart.MoreLess
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