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Can you give more detail about where the Zuni are? (And I think they've lived there forever (i.e. generations)).

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Foley published about this piece extensively, helping us to understand that it is meant to be comic / humorous, and that the kid's problem is cultural illiteracy – i.e. that you're supposed to know how things work and what they mean.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/1499652

Also, note this story/ poem is now widely available in Tedlock's collection _Finding The Center_