The Way to Rainy Mountain- Geographical details about the landscape.

Author: N. Scott Momaday

Geographical:
"Yellowstone, it seemed to me, was the top of the world, a region of deep lakes and dark timber, canyons and waterfalls. But, beautiful as it is, one might have the sense of confinement there. The skyline in all directions is close at hand, the high wall of the woods and deep cleavages of shade" (page 58).

"Descending eastward, the highland meadows are a stairway to the plain. In July the inland slope of the Rockies is luxuriant with flax and buckwheat, stonecrop and larkspur. The earth unfolds and the limit of the land recedes" (page 58).

Historical:
"When they entered upon the southern Plains they had been transformed. No longer were they slaves to the simple necessity of survival; they were a lordly and dangerous society of fighters and thieves, hunters, and priests of the sun" (57).

"Before the dance could begin, a company of soldiers rode out from Fort Sill under orders to disperse the tribe, Forbidden without cause the essential act of their faith, having seen the wild herds slaughtered and left to rot upon the ground, the Kiowas backed away forever from the medicine tree" (59).

Personal:
"Her name was Aho, and she belonged to the last culture to evolve in North America. Her forebears came down from the high country in western Montana nearly three centuries ago. They were a mountain people, a mysterious tribe of hunters whose language has never been positively classified in any major group" (57).

"Her long, black hair, always drawn and braided in the day, lay upon her shoulders and against her breast like a shawl. I do not speak Kiowa, and I never understood her prayers, but there was something inherently sad in the sound, some merest hesitation upon the syllables of sorrow" (61).

Pueblo Rebellion

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This image shows the Pueblo Rebellion. Indians and the English have had controversies as shown in this picture. This could be because of the constant press of Catholicism.

Silko.

http://www.learner.org/workshops/isonovel/images/silko.jpg

This is a picture of Leslie Marmon Silko. She is the author of "The Man to Send Rain Clouds," and she has a good Native American background behind her for writing stories like this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3m9ZYuWe-JM&feature=player_embedded

This page shows a video of Indian children dancing. This dance portrays a lot about their culture and the culture of Native Americans in general.

Jordin!

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