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 dug up from their proper burial ground. When he demands to have them returned to their correct home, Ms. Perry states that the museums po…