Yellow Woman | Summary
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. She watches the sun rise, then gets up and walks south, following their footprints from the day before. She comes across their horses, and she looks for but cannot see her pueblo (a multi-storied dwelling built of adobe; capitalized, the word also means "people" in the sense of...
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