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Paragraph You imagination comes to life, and this ,you think, is where Creation was begun.(para.1) The landscape makes your imagination vivid and lifelike, and you believe that the creation of the whole universe was begun right here. But warfare for the Kiowas was preeminently a matter of disposition rather than of survival, and they never understood the grim, unrelenting advance of the U.S. Cavalry.(para.3) The Kiowas often fought(fight的过去分词) just because they were good warriors, because they fought out of habit, character, nature, not because they needed extra lands or material gains for the sake of surviving and thriving. And they could not understand why the U.S. Cavalry （骑兵，装甲部队）never gave up pushing forward even when they had won a battle. My grandmother was spared the humiliation（耻辱，蒙羞）of those high gray walls by eight or ten years. (para.3) Luckily, my grandmother did not suffer the humiliation of being put into a closure for holding animals, for She was born eight or ten years after the event. It was a long journey toward dawn, and it led to a golden age.(para.4) They moved toward the east, where the sun rises, and also toward the beginning of a new culture, which led to the treasure moment of their history. They acquired horses, and their ancient nomadic（游牧的，流浪的）spirit was suddenly free of the ground.(para.4) Now they got horses, Riding on horseback, instead of walking on football, gave them this new freedom of movement, thus completely liberating their ancient nomadic spirit. From one point of view, their migration was the fruit of an old prophecy（预言，预言能力）, for indeed they emerged from a sunless world.(para.4) In a sense, their migration confirmed the ancient myth that entered the world from a hollow log, for they did emerge from the sunless world of the mountains. The Kiowas reckoned their stature by the distance they could see, and they were bent and blind in the wildness.(para.6) Their stature was measured by the distance they could see, Yet, because