A Way to Rainy Mountain

1)Geographical Details About Landscape
"A single knoll rises out of the plain in Oklahoma, north and west of the Wichita Range. For my people, the Kiowas, it is an old landmark, and they gave it the name Rainy Mountain."
Page 56
"Loneliness is an aspect of the land. All things in the plain are isolate; there is no confusion of objects in the eye, but one hill or one tree or one man. To look upon that landscape in the early morning, with the sun at your back, is to lose the sense of proportion. Your imagination comes to life, and this, you think, is where Creation was begun."
Page 56-57
2)Historical Details About the Rise and Fall of the Kiowa
"For more than a hundred years they had controlled the open range from the Smoky Hill River to the Red, from the headwaters of the Canadian to the fork of the Arkansas and Cimarron. In alliance with the Comanches, they ruled the whole of the southern Plains. War was their sacred business, and they were among the finest horseman the world has ever known."
Page 57
"When at last, divided and ill-provisioned, they were driven onto the staked Plains in the cold rains of autumn, they fell into panic. In Palo Duro Canyon they abandoned their crucial stores to pillage and had nothing then but their lives. In order to save themselves, they surrendered to the soldiers at Fort Sill and were imprisoned in the old stone corral that now stands as a military museum."
Page 57
3)Personal Details about his Grandmother Aho
"Her name was Aho, and she belonged to the last culture to evolve in the North America."
Page 57
"Although my grandmother lived out her long life in the shadow of Rainy Mountain, the immense landscape of the continental interior lay like memory in her blood. She could tell of the Crows, whom she had never seen, and of the Black Hills, where she had never been. I wanted to see in reality what she had seen more perfectly in the mind's eye, and traveled fifteen hundred miles to begin my pilgrimage."
Page 57-58
Momaday, N. Scott. "A Way to Rainy Mountain." Page 56-61.
From The Language of Literature. Evanston: McDougal Littell, 2006.

Laguna Indians

This is a picture of the Laguna Indians. The Laguna tribe was invaded in 1540 by the Spanish. Since then they have been pushed around by other people. They have many rituals and traditions in their tribe. Their religion is based on ancestor worship and nature gods. Most of the traditions have been able to remain in the tribe despite the fight to become more "American." Much of the income comes from the uranium ore-mining on the reservation.

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