At Navajo Monument Valley Tribal School At Navajo Monument Valley Tribal School by Sherman Alexie from the photograph by Skeet McAuley the football field rises to meet the mesa.
Indian boys gallop across the grass, against the beginnings of their body.
On those Saturday afternoons, unbroken horses gather to watch their sons growing larger in the small parts of the world. Everyone is the quarterback. This is the eternal football game, Indians versus Indians. All the Skins in the wooden bleachers fancydancing, stomping red dust straight down into nothing. Before the game is over, the eighth-grade girls' track team comes running, circling the field, their thin and brown legs echoing wild horses, wild horses, wild horses.