A Road to Rainy Mountain

N. Scott Momaday’s The Way To Rainy Mountain provides a link into the Kiowa culture that otherwise would have been lost. His emphasis throughout the piece is concentrated mainly on his grand mother who had just passed away. Her death represents the death of the Kowa culture. She was the last to dance the Sun Dance, a kiowan dance ritual. He speaks of the advances of the U.S. Cavalry who forced the Kiowas …

…numbered section even describes the location of something by saying that it is "East of my grandmother's house." Momaday has become part of the Kiowa, telling stories which have been told only a few times before, or possible never at all, where they can join the others. Connect past with present http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/wpages/wpgs700/momaday.htm © 1996 THE WEST FILM PROJECT and Error! Bookmark not defined. Developed by Lifetime Learning Systems