N. Scott Momaday

Oct 11, 2024 | splcenter.org | Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz |Tanya Tagaq |N. Scott Momaday |Louise Erdrich

Have you noticed that your shelves are lacking books about Indigenous people? In honor of Indigenous Peoples Day on Oct. 14, here are a few books to help you learn about Indigenous lives and culture. An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United StatesBy Roxanne Dunbar-OrtizRoxanne Dunbar-Ortiz’s nonfiction book challenges the founding myth of the United States and powerfully reframes its history.

Feb 5, 2024 | theparisreview.org | N. Scott Momaday

Momaday in his cadet uniform, with his mother, Natachee, in Jemez Pueblo, ca. 1952. Courtesy of N. Scott Momaday. Driving from Santa Fe’s center to its outskirts, you pass through a wide expanse made vibrant by that particular slant of light ­Georgia O’Keeffe coveted. Somehow, the sky is more immense here. Hawks circle over dusty fields strewn with yellow-flowering rabbitbrush. Beyond this plain is the quiet suburb where N. Scott Momaday lives, in a square adobe house.

Nov 16, 2023 | emergencemagazine.org | N. Scott Momaday

Poet N. Scott Momaday is a Kiowa author and poet. His books of poetry include In the Bear’s House; In the Presence of the Sun: Stories and Poems, 1961–1991; and The Gourd Dancer. His first novel, House Made of Dawn, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Illustrator James Lee Chiahan is a Taiwanese-Canadian artist and graphic designer.

Oct 10, 2023 | outsideonline.com | Steven Rinella |N. Scott Momaday

Popular historians and writers have largely treated the decimation of the buffalo and of the plains tribes through the 1800s as distinct narratives. Most acknowledge the obvious relationship between the two with a recognition that the destruction of the herds literally starved Native peoples into submission. Still, authors usually lean one way or the other—toward the buffalo or the Indians. The Extermination of the American Bison, by the taxidermist and conservationist William T.

Jul 25, 2023 | englishteacherweekly.substack.com | John Keats |N. Scott Momaday |Andrew Campbell

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