The Way To Rainy Mountain 50th Anniversary Edition

Author : N. Scott Momaday
Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2019-08-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780826361219

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The Way to Rainy Mountain, 50th Anniversary Edition by N. Scott Momaday Pdf

The Way to Rainy Mountain recalls the journey of Tai-me, the sacred Sun Dance doll, and of Tai-me's people in three unique voices: the legendary, the historical, and the contemporary. It is also the personal journey of N. Scott Momaday, who on a pilgrimage to the grave of his Kiowa grandmother traversed the same route taken by his forebears and in so doing confronted his Kiowa heritage. It is an evocation of three things in particular: a landscape that is incomparable, a time that is gone forever, and the human spirit, which endures. Celebrating fifty years since its 1969 release, this new edition offers a moving new preface and invites a new generation of readers to explore the Kiowa myths, legends, and history with Pulitzer Prize-winning author N. Scott Momaday.

Author : N. Scott Momaday
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 53,6 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 : UNM Press
Page : 69 pages
File Size : 48,8 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 : Scott N. Momaday
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:450647393

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The way to Rainy Mountain by Scott N. Momaday Pdf

Author : N. Scott Momaday
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2018-12-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062911063

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House Made of Dawn [50th Anniversary Ed] by N. Scott Momaday Pdf

“Both a masterpiece about the universal human condition and a masterpiece of Native American literature. . . . A book everyone should read for the joy and emotion of the language it contains.” — The Paris Review A special 50th anniversary edition of the magnificent Pulitzer Prize-winning novel from renowned Kiowa writer and poet N. Scott Momaday, with a new preface by the author A young Native American, Abel has come home from war to find himself caught between two worlds. The first is the world of his father’s, wedding him to the rhythm of the seasons, the harsh beauty of the land, and the ancient rites and traditions of his people. But the other world—modern, industrial America—pulls at Abel, demanding his loyalty, trying to claim his soul, and goading him into a destructive, compulsive cycle of depravity and disgust. An American classic, House Made of Dawn is at once a tragic tale about the disabling effects of war and cultural separation, and a hopeful story of a stranger in his native land, finding his way back to all that is familiar and sacred.

Author : N. Scott Momaday
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0878059601

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Conversations with N. Scott Momaday by N. Scott Momaday Pdf

When his first novel House Made of Dawn was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1969, N. Scott Momaday was virtually unknown. Today he is the most acclaimed Native American writer, working at the peak of his creative power and gaining stature also as an important painter. His first retrospective was held in 1993 at the Wheel-wright Museum in Santa Fe. The son of a Kiowa artist and a Cherokee-Anglo mother, Momaday synthesizes multiple cultural influences in his writing and painting. While much of his attention focuses on the challenging task of reconciling ancient traditions with modern reality, his work itself is an example of how the best of the Indian and non-Indian worlds can be arranged into a startling mosaic of seemingly contradictory cultural and artistic elements. Momaday sees his writings as one long, continuous story, a working out of his evolving identity as a modern Kiowa. It is a story grounded in the oral tradition of his ancestors and told in the modes of the traditional storyteller and the modern novelist-poet who is steeped in the best writings of American and European literature. The interviews in this volume span the period from 1970 to 1993. Momaday responds candidly to questions relating to his multicultural background, his views on the place of the Indian in American literature and society, his concern for conservation and an American land ethic, his theory of language and the imagination, the influences on his artistic and academic development, and his comments on specific works he has written. The reader who joins these conversations will meet in N. Scott Momaday a careful listener and an engaging, often humorous speaker whose commentaries provide a deeper vision for those interested in his life and work.

Author : N. Scott Momaday
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 54,9 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 : Natachee Scott Momaday,Al Momaday
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 119 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Kiowa Indians
ISBN : 0345024923

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The Way to Rainy Mountain by Natachee Scott Momaday,Al Momaday Pdf

Author : N. Scott Momaday
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 53,8 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 : Perfection Learning Corporation
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0756951119

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Sp-Way to Rainy Mountain by Perfection Learning Corporation Pdf

Author : N. Scott Momaday
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-03
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780063009349

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Earth Keeper by N. Scott Momaday Pdf

"Dazzling. . . . In glittering prose, Momaday recalls stories passed down through generations, illuminating the earth as a sacrosanct place of wonder and abundance. At once a celebration and a warning, Earth Keeper is an impassioned defense of all that our endangered planet stands to lose." — Esquire A magnificent testament to the earth, from Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and poet N. Scott Momaday. One of the most distinguished voices in American letters, N. Scott Momaday has devoted much of his life to celebrating and preserving Native American culture, especially its oral tradition. A member of the Kiowa tribe, Momaday was born in Lawton, Oklahoma and grew up on Navajo, Apache, and Peublo reservations throughout the Southwest. It is a part of the earth he knows well and loves deeply. In Earth Keeper, he reflects on his native ground and its influence on his people. “When I think about my life and the lives of my ancestors," he writes, "I am inevitably led to the conviction that I, and they, belong to the American land. This is a declaration of belonging. And it is an offering to the earth.” In this wise and wonderous work, Momaday shares stories and memories throughout his life, stories that have been passed down through generations, stories that reveal a profound spiritual connection to the American landscape and reverence for the natural world. He offers an homage and a warning. He shows us that the earth is a sacred place of wonder and beauty, a source of strength and healing that must be honored and protected before it’s too late. As he so eloquently and simply reminds us, we must all be keepers of the earth.

Author : N. Scott Momaday
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1987-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0816510466

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The Names by N. Scott Momaday Pdf

The Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist recalls the significant events and ventures of his own life, his own land, and his own people, recreating his experiences as an American Indian and those of his relatives

Author : N. Scott Momaday
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 50,9 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 : Simon J. Ortiz
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0816522103

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Out There Somewhere by Simon J. Ortiz Pdf

Through poems and journal entries Simon Ortiz explores his Native American culture and the various challenges they face.

Author : Gerald Robert Vizenor
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0806125799

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Dead Voices by Gerald Robert Vizenor Pdf

Gerald Vizenor gives life to traditional tribal stories by presenting them in a new perspective: he challenges the idyllic perception of rural life, offering in its stead an unusual vision of survival in the cities-the sanctuaries for humans and animals. It is a tribal vision, a quest for liberation from forces that would deny the full realization of human possibilities. In this modern world his characters insist upon survival through an imaginative affirmation of the self. In Dead Voices Vizenor, using tales drawn from traditional tribal stories, illuminates the centuries of conflict between American Indians and Europeans, or "wordies." Bagese, a tribal woman transformed into a bear, has discovered a new urban world, and in a cycle of tales she describes this world from the perspective of animals-fleas, squirrels, mantis, crows, beavers, and finally Trickster, Vizenor’s central and unifying figure. The stories reveal unpleasant aspects of the dominate culture and American Indian culture such as the fur trade, the educational system, tribal gambling, reservation life, and in each the animals, who represent crossbloods, connect with their tribal traditions, often in comic fashion. As in his other fiction, Vizenor upsets our ideas of what fiction should be. His plot is fantastic; his story line is a roller-coaster ride requiring that we accept the idea of transformation, a key element in all his work. Unlike other Indian novelists, who use the novel as a means of cultural recovery, Vizenor finds the crossblood a cause for celebration.