Analysis Of Scott Momaday's Journey To Rainy Mountain

The Wichita is a tribe that belongs to a small tribe about three hundred and twenty who live in Oklahoma. They are a tribe of Native Americans who were discovered by the Coronado expedition. Like other Native American tribes the Wichita people have their own language, culture and both, social and legal customs. They refer to themselves as Kitikitish which can be taken literally to mean raccoon eyelids. But signifies a tattooed eyelid which is from a former custom among men where they tattooed lines upon their eyelids. Women however tattoo lines upon the chin and among older women there are those with tattooed designs all over their breasts. The Wichita people were primarily sedentary interested in hunting and farming. The men hunted and went for wars for the protection of their families while women farmed and raised children.

An innate understanding that all beings on the planet are important for the subsistence of each other is a large part of Indigenous ideology, as well as the respect for the vast ways with which beings on the planet interact; whether they are “animate” or “inanimate”, they are all apart of the “web of relationships” (Battiste & Henderson, 2000, p. 44). Drawing from this view, most Indigenous Peoples believe that every member of a community has their own thoughts, gifts, and knowledge that they are able to contribute to the group. This means that there is also a large appreciation of Reciprocity because all knowledge is good knowledge, and that means all knowledge holds some validity and truth. Dreams, for example, are seen as premonitions and fact. As it happens, Indigenous Peoples place much of their societal values into facets of life that are intangible, such as emotions, spirituality, and mentality. It is for this reason that maintaining healthy and Respect-based Relationships amongst all beings on the planet is such an important part of Indigenous identity. The holistic understanding of the world can only occur if individuals are listening to each other as well as sharing whatever knowledge that they have to share.

Storytelling continues to be an integral part of Native American culture, providing us with an understanding of what was important to the Native Americans. Through their stories, Native Americans expressed an understanding of the environment, and the relationship that existed between themselves and their environment. These stories also provide us with a look at Native American legends, history, and a collection of knowledge critical to their survival. Native American stories are deeply rooted in their relationship with Mother Earth. Their many years connected with land, life, water and sky has created many stories explaining these important bonds with Mother Earth. From ancient times the Native Americans have looked to their

Cheryl Crazy Bull, who’s Lakota name Wacinyanpi Win means “they depend on her” is an enrolled member of the Sicangu Band of the Lakota Nation and comes from a Lakota, French and German heritage. Crazy Bull was born in 1954 and raised on the Rosebud Reservation. She has spent most of her life in the Dakotas. She is a family oriented educator and describes herself as, “a wife, a mother, a grandmother, and a lifelong educator.” Cheryl knew early on the need for self determination in Indian education from her father’s painful boarding school experiences. Her father had been forced away from his family, into a school where he could not speak his own Lakota language, and was forced to learn history from a White perspective in which Native Americans

Today when American society and others societies around the world thinks about a Native American man, the images that comes up ranges from the figure of the Crazy Horse indian warrior man-a strong and aggressive man that when everything seems to be lost rides his horse over the hill and saves the day(Shook)-to the image of the Sitting Bull chief-a hero, a soldier and one of the best leaders of all time in Native American history, who lived his life fighting for the rights of his people and died defending them(Native American Indian Chiefs). These traditional perspective of the Native American man remains valued elements of the Native American masculinity, and remarks the complexity of Native American masculinity(Kimmel, 2004). According to American masculinities: A historical encyclopedia by Bret E. Carroll, in las four hundred years, Native American men have played a host of other roles that have shaped American history in concrete ways and that offer important insights into the

The Legends of the Seminoles, as told by Betty Mae Jumper, each explore the universal concepts of cause and effect, and the importance of relationships. Each legend has a completely different way of exploring the same universal concepts. For example, the legend may be about two humans as in the legend titled “Two Hunters” or it may use two animals as in the other two legends “Alligator” and “The Little Turtle and the Wolf”. Each of these legends teaches the reader something different about these three universal concepts.

At the beginning of the twenty-first century the Kiowas tribe remained one of Oklahoma’s most vital American Indian tribes. Leaving their ancestral homelands near the headwaters of the Yellowstone River of Western Montana in the late seventeenth century, the horse-seeking Kiowa and affiliated Plains Apache had migrated southeast through Crow country and had reached the Black Hills of Wyoming/ South Dakota by 1775. Then in the early nineteenth century the two peoples had been pushed

The Kiowa are a Native American people who have been greatly impacted by cultural imperialism. They were forced to adapt to western culture, and in this many of the Kiowa people were converted to Christianity. Christianity is said to be a very important aspect of many Native American cultures still today, but the way in which Christianity is portrayed and practiced in such societies, including that of the Kiowa, stays true to both the religion itself and their Native practices. The Kiowa are said to have "kiowanized" Christianity. The Kiowa version of Christianity is said to differ from "' the white man's way.'" This means that they believe in God, integrate their culture and lifestyles into Christianity, and they also relay the importance of their religion in a different manner. They use their native language in their hymns, and these hymns are comprised primarily of those elements that pertain directly to Kiowa culture. In the text Lassiter states, "Kiowa hymns 'give life to a unique Kiowa experience, preserve the language, and affirm and ongoing (and continually unfolding) Kiowa spirituality.'" This reveals the effectiveness and importance of the integration of Christianity and native Kiowa practices.

Sabina Lohr is the author of, “Day in the life of Tiwi Island’s Aboriginals.” It’s a short article written to describe the life of Tiwi’s aboriginals and how they have adapted to modern times. Sabine Lohr explains her experience with the people and how they managed to retain and practice their culture and how they have adjusted to modern times. Stephen Wallace is the author of, “In Ecuador’s Amazon, a small tribe lives under a dark, oily shadow.” This article is about a trip Stephen Wallace took to the Amazonian forest to visit the indigenous tribe, the Achuar Indians. Once there, he experienced what they do from day to day and learned a bit about their culture. His main reason for staying, was to learn about how the outside world affected this tribe and was it in a negative way.

Kiowa was a Native American who did not believe in excessive violence. Kiowa finds himself at a sewage field with his buddies under mortar and machine gun fire and loses his life in a war he does not fully believe in. The night Kiowa lost his life, his platoon was camped out beside a river, in a field that they thought was just mud. The platoon soon found out that

Kiowa: The Kiowa Indian tribe's origins can be followed back to their residence by the Yellowstone River in western Montana during the late eighteenth century. The Kiowa, along with the Plains Apache Indians migrated southeast to the Black Hill of Wyoming in 1775. At the turn of the new century, the two tribes migrated once again to the Arkansas River where the Lakota Sioux and Cheyenne Indians were settled. This new found home possessed mild weather, sufficient grazing and was full of bison and feral horse herds. As a result, the Kiowa tribe was adapted and became skilled at hunting bison and riding horseback. The Kiowa were known for capturing mustangs in the Staked Plains and then training them for purposes such as, hunting, warfare, and

Why did N. Scott Momaday choose to take this journey? It was very important for him to be able to share and reflect on the stories, experiences and lessons of his Kiowa ancestors. In the introduction to the book, Momaday described memories of his grandmother and the stories she would share about the Kiowa’s path through the western region from Canada down to Oklahoma and Rainy Mountain. She told Momaday the story of Devil’s Tower and the Kiowa Legend of the bear and fleeing children, climbing up for safety and becoming the stars of the Big Dipper (Momaday 8). As readers progress through the book, we are brought with on a journey through Kiowa history and legends.

For Native Peoples of North America project 1, I decided to talk about the Western Pomo and Northeastern Pomo and the Cusabo. I picked the Pomo for interest in that they are a culture from California and the Cusabo were picked at random. I used the Handbook of North American Indians, Volume 8 (Lowell & Theodoratus, 1978) and volume 14 (Waddel, 2004) for research information. These two cultures will be compared from aspects in kinship, religion, territory, subsistence, and political and social organization. Western Pomo and Northeastern Pomo The Pomo were composed of two areas, the coast-redwood and the valley-foothill.

The motifs found in the creation myths are undoubtedly different from those found in any other type of myth. Contrary to popular belief, the purpose of the creation myths is much greater than a primitive attempt to explain the mysteries of creation. Behind each creation myth is a vast variety of symbolism along with a number of motives which are often shared between cultures, despite vast geographical differences. My intention here is not only to discuss the purpose of the creation myths, but also to compare and contrast common themes which can be found in three selected works. These being, an Eskimo creation myth, the Ongwe creation myth and the Navajo creation myth.

The statement that Momaday stated is very fitting for this book. “I don't see any validity in the separation of man and landscape.” For example the Rainy Mountain is important the Kiowa because they are nomadic people. They move around and migrated from western Montana to Oklahoma. The Rainy Mountain is like a place of union for the Kiowa people. It is a place where they come together and become one. Even thought the Kiowas have already been long gone they still live in spirit throughout the land.