"There was only the dark infinity in which nothing was. And something happened. At the distance of a star something happened, and everything began. The Word did not come into being, but it was. It did not break upon the silence, but it was older than the silence and the silence was made of it."
N. Scott Momaday was a Kiowa novelist, poet, and scholar whose work advanced modern Native American literature. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for House Made of Dawn.