The Way To Rainy Mountain Analysis

In his story “The Lakota Way; Joseph Marshall III adequately convinces the reader to persevere through a series of stories that allows the reader to develop a personal connection with characters. Marshall achieves this by informing the reader and using formal diction. This allows his readers to experience how perseverance can have a positive impact on one’s life. Marshall teaches us that Perseverance represents a quality in human beings that allows us to be steadfast despite the difficulty. In the folk tale “The Story of the Giant,” perseverance is abundant; Marshall utilizes the skill of teaching to persuade his audience to persevere through the story. Marshall‘s unique way of writing allows the reader to take lessons from a story and influence them to use it in their own lives. From lya the giant terrorizing people to Indians having to leave their land because of the government to Marshall’s grandfather’s stories of hardship, Marshall shows his audience how the Native Americans have always had it rough but more importantly how they persevered.

The short story “On The Rainy River” is written through the perspective of O’Brien in present day and as a young faced with a draft notice for Vietnam War. In “On The Rainy River,” O’brien portrays the importance of bravery in an individual through the use of symbolism, powerful tone, and reflective point of view.

The Native Americans developed their cultures, communities and way of life around the buffalo. About 24 to 28 Native American tribes had figured out how to use the buffalo in 52 different ways for food, supplies, and war. The hooves, for example, are boiled to use as glue. The humpback is, that part of the buffalo is really kind of sturdy, and so it's used for making shields, the hides for making a teepee.( The buffalo was indeed the most important resource for them. In Document 5 it show how much the Native American relied on the buffalo for for everything for example they used the buffalo’s tongue for hair brushes and their bones, for silverware, dice and brushes. After the Americans killed most of them they had to move to reservations or they wouldn’t be able to survive. In 1870 the American hunters killed at least 100 million buffalo a year. By the 1880s, the buffalo were dying out and most plains peoples were being forced onto reservations. The Native American people were not happy going to reservations but that's the only way they could survive do to their number one food supply dying out. The Natives lost a lot of the land from the

Archetypes are defined as “a typical character, an action or a situation that seems to represent such universal patterns of human nature.” (“Archetype”) The short story “On the Rainy River” by Tim O’Brien is about the internal struggle and the journey he faces after he is drafted to serve the army. The classical hero’s journey archetype is similar to Tim O’Brien’s journey in his short story, “On the Rainy River,” with the exception of the arc length and depth of transformation.

Growing up by Mount Newton I had never heard the First Nation History to the mountain. The story of Mount Newton is that an elder gathered the community together to tell them that they would no longer be safe in their homeland because the tides were rising. He warned them that they had to temporarily move up to the top of the Mount Newton to avoid the high tide. The community listen to the elder and gathered up their canoes and belonging and headed to the summit. As the sea waters began to rise up higher than the top of Mount Newton the community members had to tie a rope between their canoes and an arbutus tree and float above the land. The First Nation’s were floating in their canoes when a raven arrived to tell them the flood would soon be over. The raven traditionally in

The author, Anton Treuer, grew up in and around the Leech Lake Reservation in Minnesota. He earned his Bachelor’s degree from Princeton in 1991, and his Master’s and PhD in 1996 from the University of Minnesota. Today, he holds a position as a Professor of Ojibwe in his hometown of Bemidji. In his introduction, he states, “… I want this work to provide a place for people to get answers, it offers a

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

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.

Momaday, who is Kiowan himself, is explicit in saying that his work is meant to emphasize the dignity of his ancestors in their “golden age”- when they controlled parts of the southern Plain of Oklahoma, and before they succumbed to U.S. forces. Because this era of greatness is also inextricably linked to their land, Momaday weaves in his personal experiences amongst the land and its people. This allows for the legends of the past to transcend time and write themselves into present memory.

The Way to Rainy Mountain was written by N. Scott Momaday. N. Scott has spent his life telling the tales and history of his people. Therefore, this essay is about his people, the Kiowas, and the journey his Grandmother embarked on she was younger. His Grandmother had passed, therefore, he was returning to Rainy Mountain to visit her grave.

Navarre Scott Momaday who known as N. Scott Momaday is a Native American author who wrote “The way to Rainy Mountain in 1969. In the essay he tried himself to reunite with his heritage by embarking on a journey to Rainy Mountain in Oklahoma where he visited his late grandmother’s grave. In this essay he also tries to tell the story of his departed grandmother Aho, who belonged to the last culture to spread in North America. She had the memories of hardship and wars that his ancestors persist in the past. No wonder she had that memories of hardship while war was her ancestor’s sacred business. She also saved the stories of legends, myths and narrative accounts in herself and often told the family. Her purpose of the story is to let other people

The Way to Rainy Mountain by N. Scott Momaday is uniquely written in a brief but comprehensive way for the audience. It includes an unorthodox yet straightforward structure; that is, each chapter is comprised of three distinct sections with three different voices explaining the Kiowa tradition and history. Although this book’s main focus was culture, the story has a great deal of importance with the concept of wittiness and making the right choices. Recognizing this separate theme has influenced me to revisit my own development of having an appropriate mindset that benefits my own character. Similarly to The Way to Rainy Mountain, one tale that also inspired my personal development is a favorite film of mine, I Am Legend.

This project will center around two areas of significance to both First Nations culture and the adventure culture. The Stawamus Chief and T’eḵt’aḵmúy̓in tl’a In7iny̓áx̱a7en (Black Tusk) are places of mythological importance to the Squamish nation culture. It is necessary here to note that much of the Squamish Nation knowledge concerning myth and place colonialism has erased, limiting the extent to which this identity can be explored. Within the adventure culture, they are destinations for outdoor adventure. The duality of place meaning

God gives people choices in life. All of society has free will to go through life on their own or to rely on God for their needs. In William Hoffman’s “The question of Rain,” the town’s people have a need to exhibit their faith in God’s goodness and favor through a dedicated day of prayer. Coincidentally, their church leader, Wayland, feels God will provide everything they need in His time, according to His will. (Curtis, 1998) God’s will has high importance since people do not distinguish for themselves what they want versus what they need. Nonetheless, He also demonstrates favor through answering prayers, performing miracles, as well as never forgetting His faithful children.

The boy was fearing he might die atop the rock as his stomach grumbled, already hungry as the rest of his family had been. It seemed all was lost when he saw a fox come out from a small patch of trees, and tip toe past the buffalo and off into the night. After watching the stealth of the fox, he prayed to the creator for a moment of being as stealthy as the fox. The little boy slid silently down from the rock, and silently into the buffalo herd. His footsteps were so soft and subtle, that as he held is breath he knelt down to pet a baby buffalo that continued sleeping peacefully. The little boy continued on and returned to his people, including his very worried mother. He told them of the rock and the buffalo and the fox, and as the early spring sun began to light the sky and some of the stars began to fade, they gathered their weapons and approached the rock. The hunters spotted their prime targets, the bulls, laying closest to the rock. Like the fox and the boy the hunters snuck past the bison and atop the rock. As the sun broke the horizon one hunter atop the rock used an old bulls horn to sound off in preparation for the hunt. As the buffalo began to stir the hunters shot the four big bulls laying on either side the rock and the other hunters came out of the bush and shot 5 more big bison bulls. The tribe, as they had all been hungry quickly dressed and moved the meat back to their camp, where it was completely dressed. In honour of the four buffalo in each