The Only Way Down
A guide brings visitors into the canyon on horses. Polly learns that people live here.
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On the sixth day, Polly heard horses again. This time they were slow. A rider came down the path on a grey horse. Three visitors rode behind him.
He is Diné, said the young horse. His family has a field in the canyon. You need a permit and a guide to walk here. There is only one path you can take alone.
Polly went anywhere she wanted for five days. Now she felt a little bad. It is a rule about homes, said the horse. People live and farm here.
The horses went around the bend. Polly sat on a warm rock above a small field. She thought about it for a long time.
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