The Way To Rainy Mountain 50th Anniversary Edition

Author : N. Scott Momaday
Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
ISBN 13 : 0826361218
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Way to Rainy Mountain, 50th Anniversary Edition written by N. Scott Momaday and published by University of New Mexico Press. This book was released on 2019-08-15 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
ISBN 13 : 082632696X
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Way to Rainy Mountain written by N. Scott Momaday and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 1976-09-01 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : University of New Mexico Press
ISBN 13 : 0826361226
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Way to Rainy Mountain, 50th Anniversary Edition written by N. Scott Momaday and published by University of New Mexico Press. This book was released on 2019-08-15 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
ISBN 13 : 0826348238
Total Pages : 69 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Journey of Tai-me written by N. Scott Momaday and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2011-10-16 with total page 69 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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 :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The way to Rainy Mountain written by Scott N. Momaday and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : N. Scott Momaday
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062911066
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book House Made of Dawn [50th Anniversary Ed] written by N. Scott Momaday and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2018-12-18 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “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 : Natachee Scott Momaday
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780345024923
Total Pages : 119 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Way to Rainy Mountain written by Natachee Scott Momaday and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : N. Scott Momaday
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 006300934X
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Earth Keeper written by N. Scott Momaday and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2020-11-03 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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 : Perfection Learning Corporation
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780756951115
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sp-Way to Rainy Mountain written by Perfection Learning Corporation and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : N. Scott Momaday
Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 0826348440
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Again the Far Morning written by N. Scott Momaday and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2011-04-16 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.