The Way to Rainy Mountain

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This beautiful 50th edition came in perfect condition thanks to the packaging from the seller.We are honored to have this 50th edition added to our collection of books.If this crazy world we're living in has you feeling stressed, just read any work of N. Scott Momaday, or listen to Mr. Momaday speak (audio).... instant meditation. 💓 Powerful words, beautifully written.

Here's the deal. Most folks in the nation make up the dominant population. Other groups of folks may think differently about things. The Native Americans often think about things quite differently, and have values that are divergent from the mainstream. The book uses the thinking of the native author, from the perspective of a Native American (First peoples in Canada) to describe memories and feelings of himself and some of his family. He also uses the discontinuous narrative style of a society that speaks in parables and examples, leaving the listener to put together the story. Often, because they feel it presumptuous and ill mannered to lead the listener into the narrative by the hand and insinuate by doing this that the listener is unable to make his or her own decisions.Western literature style is to put in all the connecting elements because the readers may not be able to figure it out otherwise. In reality, if you are born in a culture that speaks in a certain way, you learn to understand things in that way. That's why Shakesphere's English is hard for many people to understand at first, it works differently than the way we speak now. It requires more introspection and internal context. After awhile, avid Shakespeare lovers get it.This is said because it is not a book written in a narrative style familiar to many people. it is a journey to Rainy Mountain, and you are supposed to figure it out just as the author did. Regardless, it is poetic, and a beautiful book that tells of a different culture and guides you along a way of thinking that is far removed from the narrative of life that one receives from the mainstream media and a material centered society.

This was the first book I ever read by this author, N. Scott Momaday. I heard about him through an American Indian Literature class that I took during my undergrad education. This book was different for its day in that it was written in a format that hadn't really been done before. This book has three "voices" that speak to the reader - one of the Kiowa tribal history as told through their oral history, a second of the historians who recorded Kiowa times, and the third voice is that of Momaday himself as he shares childhood memories of his own Kiowa upbringing in the 20th century. As the story progresses, each voice sounds less and less distinct until at the very end, they're essentially one.Momaday won a Pulitzer for his book "House Made of Dawn" back in 1969, but honestly, I liked "The Way to Rainy Mountain" far more than "House Made of Dawn." I implore you to check it out. If you're into American Indians and love to read...or appreciate contemporary literature all around...I think you'll at least appreciate this book if not like it...or in my case, love it.

Was great for my assignment

This was a beautifully written story with gorgeous descriptions of landscapes and historical commentary, but to be honest, I had no idea what was going on and struggled to truly immerse myself into this one due to its fragmentation, but this shouldn’t effect everyone.

I see this book’s project as the preservation of some of the oral tradition – i.e. mythology – that the Kiowas have handed down for generations. I also think this book is intended as an explainer – a translation, even, from Kiowa to White People. In providing the three voices, we have a kind of Rosetta Stone to help navigate the three spaces.Since this work includes traditional, historical and personal segments, each supporting the rest, it is, by definition, a hybrid discourse. It takes into account the voices of both academic and non-academics, and blends them in a way that purely intellectual examination of these stories would not. We are given a much more complete work, this way.

I'm an avid student of the story of life ( pre-white man) as a Native American. Scott Momaday is a master craftsman with language and he melds the memory of times past with what those memories mean now to a man of Kiowa heritage. I will re-read this consuming opportunity to feel something of what the noble life of a free people was like. The feeling of empathy with these original Americans is warm and exciting. This book makes me feel like I can understand something that I will never truly be able to know. Thanks to Scott Momaday.

I was so upset when I read the last page, I wish it could go on and on.I have learnt so much from this book, the history andthe wonderful memories of the people and the descriptions of the places really called out to me. I will listen to the advice, to be more aware of my surroundings which I take for granted.

La verdad es que compré este libro porque el estudio y análisis de parte de él se incluía en el temario de una de las asignaturas que cursaba. Pero, lo que al principio era una lectura por obligación, se convirtió en una lectura que disfruté. Merece la pena escuchar las grabaciones del autor y ver vídeos de sus entrevistas para comprender mejor la obra. En cuanto pueda compraré el libro en papel.

This is a must if you are into native American literature, different from anything I have read as part of the literary canon.