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Also known as Navarre Scott Momaday, Navarre Scott Mammedaty, Tsoai-talee, Rock Tree Boy

Kiowa author and academic (1934–2024)

Person · Open Library

Born
1934
Works
53

Top works

  • Prentice Hall Literature -- Platinum
  • Prentice Hall Literature--Florida--Language and Literacy
  • Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--The American Experience
  • Prentice Hall Literature--Silver
  • Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--Reader's Companion--Silver

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Country
US
Active from
1934-02-27

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Listeners
9
Total plays
28

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Quotes

  • There was a house made of dawn. It was made of pollen and of rain, and the land was very old and everlasting.
  • ...and Abel was running. Against the winter sky and the long, light valley of the landscape at dawn, he seemed almost to be standing still, very little and alone.
  • Now and then in winter, great angles of geese fly through the valley, and then the sky and the geese are the same color and the air is hard and damp and smoke rises from the houses of the town.
  • Every six or seven years there is a great harvest of piñones far to the east of town. That harvest, like the deer in the mountains, is the gift of God.
  • And Mariano fell and was exhausted. Fransisco held his stride all the way... and even then he could have gone on running, for no reason, for only the sake of running on.
  • "My grandfather is dead," Abel said. "You must bury him."... "My grandfather is dead," Abel repeated. His voice was low and even. There was no emotion, nothing.

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Gender
male
Citizenship
United States
Place of birth
Lawton
Place of death
Santa Fe
Languages spoken
English language
Image
N Scott Momaday 1977 (cropped).jpeg
Residence
Tucson
Show 13 more facts
birth name
Navarre Scott Momaday
writing language
English language
name in native language
N. Scott Momaday
date of birth
1934-02-27
start of work period
1967-00-00
has works in the collection
National Museum of the American Indian
floruit
1982-01-01
ethnic group
Kiowa people
date of death
2024-01-24
Commons category
N. Scott Momaday
Sources (14)

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