The Way to Rainy Mountain (The Sixties in America)
At a glance:
- Author: N. Scott Momaday
- First Published: 1969
- Type of Work: History/cultural anthropology
- Genres: Nonfiction, History, Anthropology
- Subjects: Memory, Mythology or myths, Nineteenth century, Religion, Native Americans or American Indians, Lifestyles, Adventure, Rites or ceremonies, Battles, Frontier or pioneer life
The Work
Occasioned by the death of Momaday’s grandmother, Aho, who witnessed the last Kiowa Sun Dance in 1887, The Way to Rainy Mountain traces the history of the Kiowas from their emergence through a hollow log onto the arid North American plains. Momaday poetically recounts Kiowa devotion to the sacred Sun Dance doll, Tai-me. His apparent motive for writing was to draw the reader into his “journey” of recovery of the past as he partially creates his own “Indian” identity from the “fragmentary . . . mythology, legend, lore, and hearsay” found in books and...
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