Read this excerpt from The Way to Rainy Mountain.

She could tell of the Crows, who she had never seen, and of the Black Hills, where she had never been. I wanted to see in reality what she had seen more perfectly in the mind’s eye...

Which tone is conveyed by the language in this excerpt?


the author’s emotional connection to the Crows


the author’s suspicion about the real route of the Kiowa


the author’s determination to see the world differently

the author’s admiration for his grandmother