Momaday
Momaday was born February 27, 1934 in Lawton, Oklahoma. He was born in the Kiowa and Comanche Indian Hospital, and was then registered with having seven-eighths Indian blood. N. Scott Momaday was born of having a mix of English, Irish, French, and Cherokee blood while, his father, Alfred Morris Momaday was a full blood Kiowa. His mother was a writer and his father, a painter. In 1935, when N. Scott Momaday was one year old, his family moved to Arizona where both his father and mother became teachers on the reservation. Growing up in Arizona allowed Momaday to experience not only his father’s Kiowa traditions but also those of the Southwest including: Navajo, Apache, and Pueblo traditions as well. In 1946, Momaday moved to Jemez Pueblo,
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The language is different in every part of the world. Dialect is used to show said culture through the way we write and talk. In Momaday's works it is easy to see how he views life and how he was brought up. “Momaday’s prose works — his essays, autobiographies, and fiction — treat the dynamic of the two elements — sensory life and the power of imagination — discursively and sometimes analytically. His poetry, on the other hand, focuses most often on the fundamental meeting of nature and imagination in the act of perception itself. This is a consummately introspective procedure, and the poetry collected in The Gourd Dancer demonstrates a loving attentiveness to the natural world as it impinges on the mind.” When people think of the culture that is native american they often imagine people with a subtle nature and never hurting a fly. Considering that Momaday grew up within this culture his books are probably not going to have a lot of violence. In the book The way to Rainy mountain, Momaday writes how his people were never into violence and they were more likely to go with peace then war. “The Native American views space as spherical and time as cyclical, not linear and sequential. The universe, then, moves and breathes continuously, unlike the Western idea of fixed and static movement. The notion that nature is somewhere over there, while humanity is over here, or that a great hierarchical ladder of being …show more content…
He bases what he has written over what he has lived and seen throughout life. “Loneliness is an aspect of the land. All things in the plain ar isolated; there is no confusion of objects in the eye, but one hill or one tree or one man. To look upon that landscape in the early morning, with the sun at your back, is to lose to the sense of proportion.” (Momaday, 3) Like mentioned, this quote can be related with Momaday’s culture. This book relates to his people that he is associated with, even if they are adversaries. This similarity helps the reader imagine what it is like to live like these people on the reservation like he did ,cut off from the real world. “But warfare for the Kiowas was eminently a matter of disposition rather than of survival, and they never understood the grim, unrelenting advance of the U.S. Cavalry.” (Momaday, 7) This goes back to the wholeness of the native american culture. In the book and in real life the KIowas never like to bolster troops, they would rather just use peace as a tactic instead. “Along the way Kiowas were befriended by the Crows, who gave them the culture and religion of the plains.”(Momaday, 23) In the culture he grew up with they were always helping of others even if it was not in their best interest. In the book Momaday talks about how the character's grandmother died and where she came from. He explains
The language is different in every part of the world. Dialect is used to show said culture through the way we write and talk. In Momaday's works it is easy to see how he views life and how he was brought up. “Momaday’s prose works — his essays, autobiographies, and fiction — treat the dynamic of the two elements — sensory life and the power of imagination — discursively and sometimes analytically. His poetry, on the other hand, focuses most often on the fundamental meeting of nature and imagination in the act of perception itself. This is a consummately introspective procedure, and the poetry collected in The Gourd Dancer demonstrates a loving attentiveness to the natural world as it impinges on the mind.” When people think of the culture that is native american they often imagine people with a subtle nature and never hurting a fly. Considering that Momaday grew up within this culture his books are probably not going to have a lot of violence. In the book The way to Rainy mountain, Momaday writes how his people were never into violence and they were more likely to go with peace then war. “The Native American views space as spherical and time as cyclical, not linear and sequential. The universe, then, moves and breathes continuously, unlike the Western idea of fixed and static movement. The notion that nature is somewhere over there, while humanity is over here, or that a great hierarchical ladder of being …show more content…
He bases what he has written over what he has lived and seen throughout life. “Loneliness is an aspect of the land. All things in the plain ar isolated; there is no confusion of objects in the eye, but one hill or one tree or one man. To look upon that landscape in the early morning, with the sun at your back, is to lose to the sense of proportion.” (Momaday, 3) Like mentioned, this quote can be related with Momaday’s culture. This book relates to his people that he is associated with, even if they are adversaries. This similarity helps the reader imagine what it is like to live like these people on the reservation like he did ,cut off from the real world. “But warfare for the Kiowas was eminently a matter of disposition rather than of survival, and they never understood the grim, unrelenting advance of the U.S. Cavalry.” (Momaday, 7) This goes back to the wholeness of the native american culture. In the book and in real life the KIowas never like to bolster troops, they would rather just use peace as a tactic instead. “Along the way Kiowas were befriended by the Crows, who gave them the culture and religion of the plains.”(Momaday, 23) In the culture he grew up with they were always helping of others even if it was not in their best interest. In the book Momaday talks about how the character's grandmother died and where she came from. He explains