What is the Native American meaning of a swallow?

Answer 1

In the Lakota culture, the swallow is the messenger of the West direction. He was first the messenger of Wakinyan, the thunder, but was rewarded to one of the four brothers, Eya when Eya set his direction. Coincidentally, the swallow also appears most often at dusk when the sun is in the west. Thunderstorms also tend to begin at dusk.

(From Sons of the Wind, by D.M. Dooling)

In Navajo culture, the swallow people are powerful beings in the second, blue world. After emerging from the previous, black, first world the people met the swallows. They made things unpleasant for the beings from the first world with their fighting. In the end the disorder in this world lead to the escape to the third yellow world. In most versions ( but not all), this current world is the fourth world.

In this world, swallows and other blue birds are associated with the Southern, sacred, blue mountain. It is called Tsoodzil (Mt Taylor). It is located north of Grants, NM. This mountain and the beings that live there are associated with: blue, south, midday, female rain, turquoise, summer, young adulthood, blue corn, and planning, learning and goals. Cougar guards it.