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    A Study Guide for N. Scott Momaday's "The Way to Rainy Mountain"
    A Study Guide for N. Scott Momaday's "The Way to Rainy Mountain"
    A Study Guide for N. Scott Momaday's "The Way to Rainy Mountain"
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    A Study Guide for N. Scott Momaday's "The Way to Rainy Mountain"

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    A Study Guide for N. Scott Momaday's "The Way to Rainy Mountain," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateJun 27, 2016
    ISBN9781535840439
    A Study Guide for N. Scott Momaday's "The Way to Rainy Mountain"

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      A Study Guide for N. Scott Momaday's "The Way to Rainy Mountain" - Gale

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      The Way to Rainy Mountain

      N. Scott Momaday

      1969

      Introduction

      The Way to Rainy Mountain (1969) is a ground-breaking work of Native American literature that posits several narrative voices and gradually blends and unifies them to create a moving exploration of Kiowa legend and history through the prism of one individual's life in the modern era. N. Scott Momaday is of Kiowa as well as Cherokee heritage, but under his schoolteacher parents, much of his early life was spent among the Navajo and Jemez Pueblo Indians in Arizona and New Mexico. The parents' intimate understanding of education was passed on to their son, who excelled in high school as well as college; at the age of twenty-nine he received a doctorate from Stanford University.

      Given a great deal of encouragement by mentors to polish his superlative literary skills, Momaday soon became both a professor and an acclaimed writer. A significant source of inspiration as well as material would be his Indian heritage and perspective. By his thirties, having thoroughly adapted to the Anglo-dominated academic world, Momaday realized that a part of him—the Kiowa part of him—would remain incomplete until he could take the time to delve into the lore and history of his people. Being unable to speak Kiowa, he drew on his father to gather oral legends, and he also embarked on a journey tracing the route followed by the Kiowas during the migration that brought about their golden age, from Montana down through the Great Plains to Oklahoma. Momaday merged the legends, the history, and his own experiences to form what he would call his favorite among his books, The Way to Rainy Mountain, which features a unique textual design and signifying illustrations by his father, Al Momaday.

      Author Biography

      Momaday was born on February 27, 1934, in the Kiowa and Comanche Indian Hospital in Law-ton, Oklahoma. On his birth certificate his name is Navarro Scotte Mammedaty, but his father had recently changed his last name to Momaday, and the son would follow suit. Al Momaday was Kiowa, while Natachee Scott, his wife, was part Cherokee, with their son officially documented as being of seven-eighths Indian blood. His mother was raised in middle-class circumstances and only later in life reconnected with her Indian heritage, which would prove an inspiration to Momaday. She was also a writer, publishing books and short stories. In the first year of his life Momaday was brought north to Devils Tower, in Wyoming, where an elder gave him the Kiowa name Tsoaitalee, meaning Rock Tree Boy—he was named after the boy in the Kiowa legend about the monumental volcanic structure's origins.

      Through Momaday's youth, his parents taught and administrated at several schools through the Southwest, ranging from Tuba City, Chinle, and the San Carlos Reservation, Arizona, to Shiprock, Hobbs, and Jemez Pueblo, New Mexico. The last destination especially,

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