N. Scott Momaday. HOUSE MADE OF DAWN. Harper & Row, 1966 & 1989. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Absolutely beautiful. Incorporates some pages from The WAY to RAINY MOUNTAIN. Abel returns to the reservation from war, from prison, from the city, and participates in ceremony.
Monday, February 26, 2024
Saturday, February 10, 2024
The WAY to RAINY MOUNTAIN
N. Scott Momaday. The WAY to RAINY MOUNTAIN. UNewMexico, 1969. An anniversary edition. Read in honour of the writer who died recently. Watched a PBS doc on him last week.
I have read a lot of work by Indigenous writers and this is by far the most beautifully written. Kiowa story-telling techniques braided with memory and archaeology reports. Illustrated by the writer's father.
N. Scott Momaday won the Pulitzer Prize in 1969 for his HOUSE MADE of DAWN.
Sunday, February 4, 2024
PILGRIM
David Whyte. PILGRIM. Many Rivers Press, Langley, WA, 2014.
Another of my local writer finds on the trip to Bellingham and Seattle. Love the Irish connection.
A GEOGRAPHY OF BLOOD
Candace Savage. A GEOGRAPHY OF BLOOD: UNEARTHING MEMORY from a PRAIRIE LANDSCAPE. Greystone, 2012. She is shocked by her own lack of knowled...

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