Thunder Rides A Black Horse: Summary

       In chapter one "Time and the Mythic Present" of the novel, "Thunder Rides A Black Horse" by Claire R. Farrer discussed Native American people live with those who have gone before them with those who are present at the moment. In the American West and Southwest, Indians on multiple reservations live their life in the "mythic present". What modern Americans considered to have occurred long ago, if it even occurred at all, is actual and visible everyday on reservations. There was a co-presence of events in which the warrior twins engaged in which took place at the dinner table was sought to have been the "mythic present". "Both the Long Ago and the Now are present together in thought,
The tongers sailed on boats with motors and they  hand tongued at midnight until the afternoon only collecting three and a half bushels of oysters. Those who sailed on the skipjack believed the hand tongers overharvested the supply of oysters. Whereas, the tongers believed they didn't overharvest the supply of oysters; they believed they were only doing their job. Watermen and tongers tried to keep as many of the oysters they found as possible, but they threw some of them overboard for the future.
       To conclude, the mythic present applied to both "Thunder Rides A Black Horse" by Claire R. Farrer and "Skipjack" by Christopher White. For "Thunder Rides A Black Horse" by Claire R. Farrer, Indians were thought to live by the mythic present and the lived present. For instance, they used what happened long ago, if it even happened, in the present. For "Skipjack" by Christopher White, Watermen followed a different calendar. They also still abide by their old