The Way to Rainy Mountain (Masterplots II: Nonfiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: N. Scott Momaday
- First Published: 1969
- Type of Work: History/cultural anthropology
- Time of Work: The early nineteenth century
- Setting: Montana and Oklahoma
- Genres: Nonfiction
- Subjects: Memory
Form and Content
The Kiowa tribe emerged from the mountains of Montana soon after horses became available to the people of the northern plains. Early in the nineteenth century they migrated south to Oklahoma, where they fought their final battles with white civilization and were defeated. This is the story which N. Scott Momaday, whose father was a Kiowa, tells in The Way to Rainy Mountain. Yet the book’s impressionistic methods make it less a history of the Kiowa than a personal meditation on that history in which Momaday employs myth, legend, ethnographic and...
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