Yellow Woman | Characters
The poem that prefaces "Yellow Woman" suggests that the story that follows is mythic. Whirlwind Man belongs "to the wind," and he and Kochininako, Yellow Woman, "travel swiftly/this whole world." At the story's opening, the unnamed female narrator awakens at dawn next to a man on a riverbank. Although the reader never learns the name of the narrator, it becomes apparent that she is a Laguna Pueblo wife and mother. She has been to school and does not seem to relate her modern life with the myths of her people, but she heard "the old stories" from her grandfather before he died.
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