The Journey of Tai me

The Journey of Tai me
Author: N. Scott Momaday
Publsiher: UNM Press
Total Pages: 69
Release: 2011-10-16
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780826348234

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"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.

The Way to Rainy Mountain

The Way to Rainy Mountain
Author: N. Scott Momaday
Publsiher: UNM Press
Total Pages: 104
Release: 1976-09-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780826326966

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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

The Journey of Tai me

The Journey of Tai me
Author: N. Scott Momaday
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 84
Release: 1967
Genre: Kiowa Indians
ISBN: LCCN:67009573

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Circle of Wonder

Circle of Wonder
Author: N. Scott Momaday
Publsiher: UNM Press
Total Pages: 52
Release: 1999
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0826321496

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A touching Christmas tale from Jemez Pueblo, illustrated in color by the author.

In the Presence of the Sun

In the Presence of the Sun
Author: N. Scott Momaday
Publsiher: UNM Press
Total Pages: 189
Release: 2013-02-15
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 9780826348173

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"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

Reading Learning Teaching N Scott Momaday

Reading  Learning  Teaching N  Scott Momaday
Author: Jim Charles
Publsiher: Peter Lang
Total Pages: 170
Release: 2007
Genre: Electronic Book
ISBN: 0820481866

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In the Bear s House

In the Bear s House
Author: N. Scott Momaday
Publsiher: UNM Press
Total Pages: 112
Release: 2011-10-04
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 9780826348418

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"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.

Native American Renaissance

Native American Renaissance
Author: Kenneth Lincoln
Publsiher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 352
Release: 1985-12-04
Genre: History
ISBN: 0520054571

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Lincoln presents the writing of today's most gifted Native American authors, against an ethnographic background which should enable a growing number of readers to share his enthusiasm. Lincoln has lived with American Indians, knows them, and is respected by them; all this enhances his book.