In 1969, the same year that N. Scott Momaday began his tenure as associate professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California at Berkeley, he won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for House Made of Dawn (1968), published his...

"Learning from the Indian," Viva: Northern New Mexico's Sunday Magazine (9 July 1972): 2; "Figments of Sancho Panza's Imagination," Viva: Northern New Mexico's Sunday Magazine (31 December 1972): 2; "Finding a Need for Nature," Viva: Northern New...

When N. Scott Momaday received the 1969 Pulitzer Prize for fiction for his first novel, House Made of Dawn (1968), the literary community recognized the arrival of a major contemporary Native American writer; the event marked the beginning of what...

N. Scott Momaday, winner of the 1969 Pulitzer Prize for fiction with his first novel, House Made of Dawn, achieved international attention as an author of Native American literature. Through his poetry, fiction, criticism, and essays, especially The...

Navarre Scott Momaday (born February 27, 1934) is a Native American (Kiowa) writer. He is the son of the writer Natachee Scott Momaday and the painter Al Momaday, and was born on the Kiowa Reservation in Lawton, Oklahoma, United States. His novel House...

Matthias Schubnell, ed. Jackson. University Press of Mississippi. 1997. xx + 234 pages. $42 ($17 paper). ISBN 0-87805-959-8 (960-1 paper). Conversations with N. Scott Momaday is a convenient collection of interviews with the Kiowa-Cherokee author spanning the years from 1970 through 1993....

An enthymeme is a brief syllogism, one more familiar than rigidly structured logic and omitting what listeners or readers already understand. Novels by N. Scott Momaday should be read as enthymemes that share cultural knowledge through a structure whose goal is agreement and understanding....

Chanting "no justice, no peace," American Indians and their supporters marked the state's centennial Friday with a march on the state Capitol to denounce the events that led to Oklahoma's statehood.Descendants of famous Oklahomans donned period costumes to lead the celebration in Guthrie, the state's...

In the following essay, Mason provides an in-depth analysis of The Gourd Dancer, examining the major themes of each section and the volume as a whole.

In the essay below, Mason provides an in-depth analysis of The Gourd Dancer, examining the major themes of each section and of the volume as a whole.

In the following excerpt, Schubnell discusses Momaday's poems that center on his Native American heritage, focusing in particular on part two of The Gourd Dancer.