House Made of Dawn (1968) the book is heavily tinted in American Indian color: the race for good hunting and harvests, the fiestas--The Feast of Santiago with its ceremony of the rooster pull race and the winner's flailing of a fellow participant, and the fiesta of Porcingula, with its Pecos bull ceremony, the annual eagle hunt and its sacrifice in an Indian ceremony, the Navajo night chant which offers spiritual healing(as Ben does for Abel), and the dawn running with the runner's arms and shoulders marked with burnt wood and ashes House Made of dawn is an authentic representation of the Native Americans surviving in the modern world while trying, and successfully to keep their traditions intact and their selfhood wholeHouse Made of Dawn(1968) the book is heavily tinted in American Indian color: the race for good hunting and harvests, the fiestas--The Feast of Santiago with its ceremony of the rooster pull race and the winner's flailing of a fellow participant, and the fiesta of Porcingula, with its Pecos bull ceremony, the annual eagle hunt and its sacrifice in an Indian ceremony, the Navajo night chant which offers spiritual healing (as Ben does for Abel), and the dawn running with the runner's arms and shoulders marked with burnt wood and ashes. House Made of Dawn is an authentic representation of the Native Americans surviving in the modern world while trying, and successfully, to keep their traditions intact and their selfhood whole