Personal Response Essay to Chapter One of "Talking God" by Tony Hillerman

Talking God, by Tony Hillerman, is a novel that is about a conflict between a woman named Catherine Morris Perry and a Native American named Henry Highhawk. Ms. Perry is employed at the Washington Museum of National History as the "Temporary Assistant Counsel, Public Affairs." (Hillerman 2) In chapter one of this piece, Mr. Highhawk is upset because the museum in which Ms. Perry works contains thousands of Native American bones of his ancestors that were …

…to home. <Tab/>I think the author intentionally wrote this piece the way he did in order to educate ignorant people. When I read it, I truly learned how the Indians feel when their ancestors are taken from their burial grounds and displayed in museums everywhere. Now that I have thought of it in this light, I feel much more educated about the views that the Indians have on certain things.