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The Way to Rainy Mountain

by N. Scott Momaday · 1969 · 89 pages

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The author retells the Kiowa myths learned from his grandmother, speculates on the actual history they may symbolize, and describes with infectious nostalgia the Indian life he knew as a child.

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Genre
folkloremythologymyths and folklorehistorical fiction
Themes
spiritualitynative americandiversityreligionteachers
Setting
1960samerican westindiaUSA
Subject
historyanthropologybiography
Audience
adult
Length
short · 89 pages
Form
poetryshort storiesessaysnovella

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