The Environment Shapes the Story

Most of our plains Indians in the period of the horse riding Indians, you know, had originally been of the Mississippian culture along the Mississippi. They receive the horse from the Spaniards and it makes it possible then to venture out in the plains and handle a great hunt of the buffalo herds. And the mythology transforms from vegetation to buffalo. The only people that can keep it alive are artists of our kind or another. That artist is, his function is the mythologization of the environment and the world.