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ties, from a dramatic standpoint at least, the pueblo and plains 

 Indians possessed. Whether they could ever have embodied their 

 crude material into any worthy literary form according to Euro- 

 pean standards, is another problem. Certainly the soul of a 

 worthy literature shines through the beautiful poetic imagery of 

 not a few of their religious dramatizations. 



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