In "The Way to Rainy Mountain", by N. Scott Momaday, in this excerpt from Section III, the effect of the first-person point of view is The reader learns how the author himself felt about the Kiowa dogs.
The dogs that lived among the Kiowas were "nameless and lived a life of their own". People appreciated them but nobody claimed their ownership, they respected the dog's independence. This we know as the effect of the first-person point of view in which we are told how the narrator thinks, acts, and feels. The point of view that is used to convey the story from the novelist's perception is the first person point of view.
