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N. Scott Momaday's mother was Mayme 'Natachee' Scott Momaday (1913–1996), who Momaday claimed to be of English, Irish, French, and "some degree of Cherokee" descent, [7] [8] [9] born in Fairview, Kentucky, [10] while his father was Alfred Morris Momaday, who was a full-blooded Kiowa. [11] His mother was a writer and his father a painter. [5]
House Made of Dawn. House Made of Dawn is a 1968 novel by N. Scott Momaday, widely credited as leading the way for the breakthrough of Native American literature into the mainstream. It was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1969, and has also been noted for its significance in Native American anthropology. [2]
Jan. 29—N. Scott Momaday, whose groundbreaking debut novel "House Made of Dawn" inspired Native artists for decades, died last week in Santa Fe, his publisher announced Monday. Momaday was 89. A ...
The Way to Rainy Mountain is a blend of history, folklore, and poetic memoir and was published in 1969. It takes the reader through author N. Scott Momaday’s own journey of discovering his Kiowa background and identity. The journey is told in three separate voices: The first voice, the ancestral voice, tells about the Kiowa by using oral ...
N. Scott Momaday, a Pulitzer Prize-winning storyteller, poet, educator and folklorist whose debut novel "House Made of Dawn" is widely credited as the starting point for contemporary Native ...
Governor's Arts Awards ceremony includes tributes to N. Scott Momaday and Betty Price ... and N. Scott Momaday, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Kiowa author and Lawton native who died Jan. 24 at the ...
1997. Pages. 211. ISBN. 978-031215581-0. The Man Made of Words: Essays, Stories, Passages, written by N. Scott Momaday and published in 1997, is a collection of stories and essays written over a period of more than 30 years. [1] The selections are grouped into three parts. The first part, titled "The Man Made of Words," includes ten selections ...
Feb. 3—Pulitzer-winning — and New Mexico resident — N. Scott Momaday died on Jan. 24. The Native American novelist was a force in the literary world. New Mexico PBS is honoring his legacy ...