N. Scott Momaday

House Made of Dawn is a novel by N. Scott Momaday, widely credited as leading the way for the breakthrough of Native American literature into the mainstream. It was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1969, and has also been noted for its significance in Native American Anthropology.

The Way to Rainy Mountain 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 Cavalry at Fort Sill, and subsequent resettlement near Rainy Mountain, …

A l'endroit où les mots et le lieu se rejoignent, on trouve le sacré. Celui qui n'a qu'une tradition orale pense La Langue en ces termes : "Mes mots n'existent que par ma voix. Si je parle à la légère, je galvaude mes mots." Deux phrases qui, à elles seules, pourraient illustrer la substance de ce recueil écrit sur …