The Journey Of Tai Me

Author : N. Scott Momaday
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 69 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2011-10-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780826348234

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The Journey of Tai-me by N. Scott Momaday Pdf

"Tai-me" is a traditional medicine bundle used by the Kiowa in their Sun Dance. The bundle has been handed down from generation to generation, through the nineteenth century and into the twentieth. N. Scott Momaday made this discovery when he began his journey to learn about the Kiowa and his paternal lineage. Following the death of his beloved Kiowa grandmother, Aho, in 1963 Momaday set out on his quest to learn and document the Kiowa heritage, stories, and folklore. His Kiowa-speaking father, artist Al Momaday, served as translator when Scott visited tribal elders to ask about their memories and stories. Scott gathered these stories into The Journey of Tai-me. Originally published only in a limited edition in 1967, The Journey of Tai-me is recognized as the basis from which Momaday's more popular The Way to Rainy Mountain grew. When compiling The Way to Rainy Mountain, published by the University of New Mexico Press, Momaday added his own memories and some poems.

Author : N. Scott Momaday
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1976-09-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780826326966

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The Way to Rainy Mountain by N. Scott Momaday Pdf

First published in paperback by UNM Press in 1976, The Way to Rainy Mountain has sold over 200,000 copies. "The paperback edition of The Way to Rainy Mountain was first published twenty-five years ago. One should not be surprised, I suppose, that it has remained vital, and immediate, for that is the nature of story. And this is particularly true of the oral tradition, which exists in a dimension of timelessness. I was first told these stories by my father when I was a child. I do not know how long they had existed before I heard them. They seem to proceed from a place of origin as old as the earth. "The stories in The Way to Rainy Mountain are told in three voices. The first voice is the voice of my father, the ancestral voice, and the voice of the Kiowa oral tradition. The second is the voice of historical commentary. And the third is that of personal reminiscence, my own voice. There is a turning and returning of myth, history, and memoir throughout, a narrative wheel that is as sacred as language itself."--from the new Preface

Author : N. Scott Momaday
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Kiowa Indians
ISBN : LCCN:67009573

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The Journey of Tai-me by N. Scott Momaday Pdf

Author : N. Scott Momaday
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2013-02-15
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780826348173

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In the Presence of the Sun by N. Scott Momaday Pdf

"In the Presence of the Sun presents 30 years of selected works by [N. Scott] Momaday, the well-known Southwest Native American novelist. His unadorned poetry, which recounts fables and rituals of the Kiowa nation, conveys the deep sense of place of the Native American oral tradition. Here are dream-songs about animals (bear, bison, terrapin) and life away from urban alienation, an imagined re-creation based on Billy the Kid, prose poems about Plains Shields (and a fascinating discussion of their background), and new poems that utilize primary colors ('forms of the earth') to express instinctive continuities of a pre-Columbian vision."--Library Journal "The strong, spare beauty of In the Presence of the Sun is compelling evidence that Scott Momaday is one of the most versatile and distinguished artists in America today."--Peter Matthiessen ". . . the images, the voices, the people are shadowy, elusive, burning with invention, like flames against a dark sky. For behind them is always the artist-author himself . . . a man with a sacred investiture. Strong medicine, strong art indeed."--The New York Times Book Review

Author : Jace Weaver,Craig S. Womack,Robert Allen Warrior
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0826340733

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American Indian Literary Nationalism by Jace Weaver,Craig S. Womack,Robert Allen Warrior Pdf

A study of Native literature from the perspective of national sovereignty and self-determination.

Author : N. Scott Momaday
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2011-10-04
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780826348418

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In the Bear's House by N. Scott Momaday Pdf

"Let me say at the outset that this book is not about Bear (he would be spoken of in the singular and masculine, capitalized and without an article), or it is only incidentally about him. I am less interested in defining the being of Bear than in trying to understand something about the spirit of wilderness, of which Bear is a very particular expression. . . . Bear is a template of the wilderness."--from the Introduction Since receiving the Pulitzer Prize in 1969 for his novel House Made of Dawn, N. Scott Momaday has had one of the most remarkable careers in twentieth-century American letters. Here, in In the Bear's House, Momaday passionately explores themes of loneliness, sacredness, and aggression through his depiction of Bear, the one animal that has both inspired and haunted him throughout his lifetime. With transcendent dignity and gentleness, In the Bear's House celebrates Momaday's extraordinary creative vision and evolution as one of our most gifted artists.

Author : Jim Charles
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0820481866

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Reading, Learning, Teaching N. Scott Momaday by Jim Charles Pdf

Author : John Lash
Publisher : Element Books Limited
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1852301201

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The Tai Chi Journey by John Lash Pdf

A form of Chinese exercise and a complete way of life. Exercises combine mind, breath, balance and parts of the body together in harmony.

Author : Kenneth Lincoln
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1985-12-04
Category : History
ISBN : 0520054571

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Native American Renaissance by Kenneth Lincoln Pdf

Lincoln presents the writing of today's most gifted Native American authors, against an ethnographic background which should enable a growing number of readers to share his enthusiasm. Lincoln has lived with American Indians, knows them, and is respected by them; all this enhances his book.

Author : N. Scott Momaday
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0826321496

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Circle of Wonder by N. Scott Momaday Pdf

A touching Christmas tale from Jemez Pueblo, illustrated in color by the author.

Author : Ram Dass
Publisher : Bantam
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2012-01-04
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9780307812483

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Journey of Awakening by Ram Dass Pdf

Find the practice that’s right for you with this exploration of the many paths of meditation—from mantra, prayer, singing, visualizations, and “just sitting” to movement meditations such as tai chi “Everyone has experienced a moment of pure awareness. A moment without thinking ‘I am aware’ or ‘that is a tree.’ Such moments bring a sense of rightness, of clarity, of being at one. Such moments are the essence of meditation.”—Ram Dass Ram Dass is an American psychologist and spiritual teacher who has studied and practiced meditation for many years. Here he shares his understanding and suggests how you can find methods suitable for you. He illuminates the stages and benefits of meditative practice, and provides wise and often humorous advice on overcoming difficulties along the way.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2008-05-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0803217498

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American Indian Autobiography by Anonim Pdf

American Indian Autobiography is a kind of cultural kaleidoscope whose narratives come to us from a wide range of American Indians: warriors, farmers, Christian converts, rebels and assimilationists, peyotists, shamans, hunters, Sun Dancers, artists and Hollywood Indians, spiritualists, visionaries, mothers, fathers, and English professors. Many of these narratives are as-told-to autobiographies, and those who labored to set them down in writing are nearly as diverse as their subjects. Black Elk had a poet for his amanuensis; Maxidiwiac, a Hidatsa farmer who worked her fields with a bone-blade hoe, had an anthropologist. Two Leggings, the man who led the last Crow war party, speaks to us through a merchant from Bismarck, North Dakota. White Horse Eagle, an aged Osage, told his story to a Nazi historian. ø By discussing these remarkable narratives from a historical perspective, H. David Brumble III reveals how the various editors? assumptions and methods influenced the autobiographies as well as the autobiographers. Brumble also?and perhaps most importantly?describes the various oral autobiographical traditions of the Indians themselves, including those of N. Scott Momaday and Leslie Marmon Silko. American Indian Autobiography includes an extensive bibliography; this Bison Books edition features a new introduction by the author.

Author : N. Scott Momaday
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2011-04-16
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780826348449

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Again the Far Morning by N. Scott Momaday Pdf

Although highly regarded as a writer of fiction, nonfiction, and drama, N. Scott Momaday considers himself primarily a poet. This first book of his poems to be published in over a decade, Again the Far Morning comprises a varied selection of new work along with the best from his four earlier books of poems: Angle of Geese (1974), The Gourd Dancer (1976), In the Presence of the Sun (1992), and In the Bear’s House (1999). To read Momaday’s poems from the last forty years is to understand that his focus on Kiowa traditions and other American Indian myths is further evidence of his spectacular formal accomplishments. His early syllabic verse, his sonnets, and his mastery of iambic pentameter are echoed in more recent work, and prose poetry has been part of his oeuvre from the beginning. The new work includes the elegies and meditations on mortality that we expect from a writer whose career has been as long as Momaday’s, but it also includes light verse and sprightly translations of Kiowa songs.

Author : Charles E. Gannon
Publisher : Baen Books
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781625798268

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At the End of the Journey by Charles E. Gannon Pdf

A NEW NOVEL IN JOHN RINGO'S BEST-SELLING BLACK TIDE RISING SERIES BY NEBULA- AND DRAGON AWARD–NOMINATED AUTHOR CHARLES E. GANNON It was supposed to be fun. Six teenagers and their British captain aboard the ketch Crosscurrent Voyager, headed on a senior year summer cruise to excitement and adventure. Then the world as they knew it ended. A plague spread throughout the globe, killing millions and turning the survivors into cannibalistic rage monsters—zombies, in so many words. Only by putting aside their differences were the young crew able to survive. Now, they seek others like them, those fortunate souls who have made it through the zombie apocalypse. After all, maybe it's not the end of the world so long as GPS can help survivors navigate deadly terrain, to link up, and maybe—just maybe—ensure the continuation of the human race. But the Earth’s GPS systems are failing. It falls to those aboard the Crosscurrent Voyager to keep the unthinkable from happening. In order to do so, they must traverse dangerous seas to a European Space Agency complex in French Guiana. And thousands of infected stand in the way. If they succeed, humankind has a chance of rebuilding. If they fail, humanity may well be at the end of its journey. At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management). About Charles E. Gannon: “The plot is intriguing and then some. Well-developed and self-consistent; intelligent readers are going to like it.”—Jerry Pournelle "Chuck Gannon writes the kind of science fiction we all grew up on: rousing, mind-expanding, pulse-pounding sagas of spaceships and aliens. He's a terrific writer, and we're lucky to have him."—Robert J. Sawyer "[A] strong [writer of] . . . military SF . . . [much] action going on in his work, with a lot of physics behind it. There is a real sense of the urgency of war and the sacrifices it demands."—Locus About the Black Tide Rising series: “Not only has Ringo found a mostly unexplored corner of the zombie landscape, he's using the zombie frame to tackle a broader theme: the collapse and rebirth of civilization. The zombie scenes are exciting, sure, but its the human story that keeps us involved. A fine series.”—Booklist “Ringo combines humor and horror in this strong series debut, the thinking reader’s zombie novel.”—Publishers Weekly on Under a Graveyard Sky

Author : Josh Waitzkin
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2008-05-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780743277464

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The Art of Learning by Josh Waitzkin Pdf

An eight-time national chess champion and world champion martial artist shares the lessons he has learned from two very different competitive arenas, identifying key principles about learning and performance that readers can apply to their life goals. Reprint. 35,000 first printing.