I think to answer your question you need to realise that
the quote you gave is actually a metaphor. The key to working out what the author is
talking about relates to the images that the word "dawn" creates in our mind. Consider
the fate of Aho's tribe before their migration and note how they were
described:
They were a mountain people, a mysterious tribe
of hunters whose language has never been positively classified in any major
group.
They were an
indistinct tribal group without their own separate ethnic identity. However, their
migration changed that as it triggered "a golden age" for this tribe. The migration,
through the people they met and the change in location, gave the Kiowa people a new
culture, which included a new religion and a sense of pride in their own tribal
identity. So much so, that when they entered the southern Plains the texts tells us they
had been transformed:
No longer were they slaves to the simple
necessity of survival; they were a lordly and dangerous society of fighters and thieves,
hunters and priests of the
sun.
Thus we can understand
why the metaphor is appropriate. It was a new, glorious start for the tribe, just as
dawn signifies a new beginning for the world.
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