Natalie Curtis made a number of observations about the Navajo and their songs. According to these observations, songs like “Twelfth Song of Thunder” were

Curtis’s observations present these songs as sacred gifts, not as ordinary compositions created by people. “Twelfth Song of Thunder” was understood to have been given to the Navajo people by the gods, so the correct choice is “given to the Navajo people by the gods.”

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