Way To Rainy Mountain

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 : 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 : N. Scott Momaday
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312187422
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Man Made of Words written by N. Scott Momaday and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1997 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects the author's writings on sacred geography, Billy the Kid, actor Jay Silverheels, ecological ethics, Navajo place names, and old ways of knowing.

Author : N. Scott Momaday
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816510467
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Names written by N. Scott Momaday and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 1987-11 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Navarre Scott Momaday
Publisher : Bison Books
ISBN 13 : 9780803297296
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ancestral Voice written by Navarre Scott Momaday and published by Bison Books. This book was released on 1991 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: INTERVIEW WITH N. SCOTT MOMADAY ABOUT HIS WRITINGS, PHILOSOPHY AND THE CREATIVE PROCESS.

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 : N. Scott Momaday
Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 0826348173
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In the Presence of the Sun written by N. Scott Momaday and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2013-02-15 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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 : N. Scott Momaday
Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 0826348416
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In the Bear's House written by N. Scott Momaday and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2011-10-04 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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 : N. Scott Momaday
Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 9780826321497
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Circle of Wonder written by N. Scott Momaday and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A touching Christmas tale from Jemez Pueblo, illustrated in color by the author.

Author : N. Scott Momaday
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 9780878059607
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Conversations with N. Scott Momaday written by N. Scott Momaday and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 1997 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.