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Detailed Analysis of the TextParagraph 10 The author tells about the last days of the Sun Dance culture by using his grandmother as a witness. My grandmother had a reverence for the sun, a holy regard that now is all but gone out of mankind. The author is criticizing modern humans who, almost without exception, have no holy regard for nature. She had come a long way about, and she never forgot her birthright. She had experienced a lot before becoming a Christian but she never forgot her cultural heritage as a Kiowa. They could find no buffalo; they had to hang an old hide from the sacred tree. As they were unable to find any buffalo, they had to substitute the head of a buffalo with an animal’s skin. This shows how the Kiowa culture was weakened by the disappearance of buffalo. Forbidden without cause the essential act of their faith, having seen the wild herds slaughtered and left to rot upon the ground. They were forbidden to perform the most important part of their religion and no reason was given for abolishing the Sun Dance religion. Without bitterness, and for as long as she lived, she bore a vision of deicide. deicide: the killing of a god. Why without bitterness? Maybe the Kiowa had suffered too much to feel bitter, or maybe they accepted this as their fate. Detailed Analysis of the TextParagraph 11 For the first time, the author concentrates only on his grandmother’s story rather than mixing it with the history of the whole Kiowa tribe. Also for the first time, the author shifts the focus of depicting the landscape to describing a person—his grandmother Aho as an old woman. That was illusion; I think I knew then that I should not see her again. That she was timeless is a false idea, not in accordance with the fact of life. The fact was that I realized that this was going to be my last time to see her. The implied meaning is that she would die soon. Detailed Analysis of the TextParagraph 12 It is about the old houses at Rainy Mountain, i