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The Way to Rainy Mountain by N. Scott Momaday

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Author Biography

Name: N. Scott Momaday
Birth Date: February 27, 1934
Place of Birth: Lawton, Oklahoma, United States
Nationality: American
Ethnicity: Native American
Gender: Male
Occupations: author, school administrator

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Biography of N(avarre) Scott Momaday
9749 words, approx. 32.5 pages
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 aut...
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Biography of N. Scott Momaday
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"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 Mexico'...
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Biography of N(avarre) Scott Momaday
7993 words, approx. 26.6 pages
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 Kennet...
 


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The Way to Rainy Mountain Summary
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The Way to Rainy Mountain by N. Scott Momaday Born February 27, 1934, in Lawton, Oklahoma, Navarre Scott Momaday was reared in New Mexico and Arizona as well as Oklahoma. He is of mixed Kiowa, Euro-American, and Cherokee descent. Momaday studied at the...
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The Way to Rainy Mountain Information
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The Way to Rainy Mountain (1969) is a book by Pulitzer Prize winning author N. Scott Momaday. It is about the journey of Momaday's Kiowa ancestors from their ancient beginnings in the Montana area to their final war and surrender to the United States...


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The Journal Record
Rainy day? No way!
05/04/1998: 1,008 words, approx. 3 pages
It is patently evident that passage of Oklahoma Senate Bill 973 to take $25 million out of the state's "rainy day" fund, to offset health insurance costs for state employees, is nothing more than election-year legislative posturing. It also may have been an attempt,...
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Boys' Life
The way of the mountain
07/01/2001: 1,313 words, approx. 4 pages
The old elk stood his ground, defeating the young buck and defending his role as leader of the herd. Then the second challenger appeared. I was 15 years old that winter and a far cry from the helpless, useless boy who had come...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Thekla Zachrau
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Zachrau is an educator. In the essay below, he discusses Momaday's focus on the search for Native identity in House Made of Dawn, The Way to Rainy Mountain, and The Names.
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Critical Essay by Roger Dickinson-Brown
4,304 words, approx. 14 pages
In the excerpt below, Dickinson-Brown offers a stylistic examination of House Made of Dawn, The Way to Rainy Mountain and several of the poems in Angle of Geese.
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Robert L. Berner
4,196 words, approx. 14 pages
In the following essay, Berner analyzes the themes and organization of The Way to Rainy Mountain.
 


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