House Made of Dawn | Related Titles
Momaday sees his works as parts of one overall story, similar to Faulkner's portrayal of Yoknapatawpha County. In The Way to Rainy Mountain (1969), he tells of a pilgrimage to his grandmother's grave and of his connection to the Kiowas and the myth of the bear-boy. In House Made of Dawn, Tosamah repeats this, with significant differences, as his second sermon which ends "The Priest of the Sun" chapter. The mixture of Tosamah's words with Momaday's make John Big Bluff seem ironic, in light of his attitude toward the traditional. Yet the end of the chapter points out to the...
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