The Way to Rainy Mountain

• The author• The Pulitzer Prize• Oklahoma• Kiowa• No Country for Old Man

N. Scott Momaday

• Navarre Scott Momaday (born February 27, 1934) is a Native American (Kiowa) writer.

• He is the son of the writer Natachee Scott Momaday and the painter Al Momaday, and was born in Lawton, Oklahoma, United States.

His novel House Made of Dawn led to the breakthrough of Native American literature into the mainstream. It was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1969.

Bibliography• The Journey of Tai-me (1967) • House Made of Dawn (1968) • The Way to Rainy Mountain (1969) (illustrated by his father, Alfred

Momaday) • Angle of Geese (1974) • The Gourd Dancer (1976) • The Names: A Memoir (1976) • The Ancient Child (1989) • In the Presence of the Sun (1992) • The Native Americans: Indian County (1993) • Circle of Wonder: A Native American Christmas Story (1994) • The Man Made of Words: Essays, Stories, Passages (1997) • In the Bear's House (1999)

Momaday is also featured in another PBS documentary concerning the Battle of the Little Bighorn(大羊角之战 ). He laughed and said of his grandfather, who fought in the battle: "My grandfather used to say Custer looked whiter than ever!".

Quotes

• "I sometimes think the contemporary white American is more culturally deprived than the Indian."

• "I simply kept my goal in mind and persisted. Perseverance is a large part of writing."

Pulitzer Prize

• The Pulitzer Prize, is an American award regarded as the highest national honor in print journalism, literary achievements, and musical composition. It is administered by Columbia University in New York City.

• Prizes are awarded yearly in twenty-one categories.

• The prize was established by Joseph Pulitzer, a Hungarian-American journalist and newspaper publisher, who left money to Columbia University upon his death in 1911. A portion of his bequest was used to found the university's journalism school in 1912. The first Pulitzer Prizes were awarded on June 4 1917, and they are now announced each April.

• The current Pulitzer Prize category definitions in the 2007 competition, in the order they are awarded, are:

• Public Service• Breaking News Reporting• Investigative Reporting• Explanatory Reporting• Local Reporting• National Reporting• International Reporting• Feature Writing• Commentary• Criticism• Editorial Writing• Editorial Cartooning• Breaking News Photography, previously called Spot News Photography• Feature Photography

• There are six categories in letters and drama:

• Fiction• Drama• History• Biography or Autobiography• Poetry• General Non-Fiction

• There is one prize given for music:

• Pulitzer Prize for Music

Kiowa• The Kiowa are a nation of Native Americans

who lived mostly in the plains of west Texas, Oklahoma and eastern New Mexico at the time of the arrival of Europeans. Today the Kiowa Tribe is federally recognized, with about 12,000 members living in southwestern Oklahoma.

Oklahoma

• Oklahoma is a state located in the south-central region of the United States of America. Its nickname is the "Sooner State", and is part of a region commonly known as the American "Heartland." Oklahoma City is the state's capital and largest city. However, since Oklahoma is near the geographic center of the U.S., the regional influences add to Oklahoma's unique character.

• Oklahoma became the 46th state in the Union on November 16, 1907. The state’s name comes from the Choctaw words okla meaning people and homa meaning red, literally meaning “red people”.

Oklahoma City Thunder

No Country for Old Man(老无所依 ) ----- Cormac McCarthy