American Literature / Unit 18 AML 1717 short lesson, about 20 seconds
N. Scott Momaday and the Native American Renaissance
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The idea
Momaday's House Made of Dawn, of nineteen sixty-eight, won the Pulitzer Prize, and with The Way to Rainy Mountain it evokes the beauty and despair of Kiowa life. The witness says these authors most often write the loss of a traditional life based in nature.
In practice
A Pulitzer that opened a generation.
Where people slip
Erdrich is called the movement's second wave.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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