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The Journey of Tai-me

2011-10-16 Social Science
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Release : 2011-10-16
Genre : Social Science
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Book Synopsis The Journey of Tai-me by : N. Scott Momaday

Download or read book The Journey of Tai-me written by N. Scott Momaday. This book was released on 2011-10-16. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Tai-me" is a traditional medicine bundle used by the Kiowa in their Sun Dance. The bundle has been handed down from generation to generation, through the nineteenth century and into the twentieth. N. Scott Momaday made this discovery when he began his journey to learn about the Kiowa and his paternal lineage. Following the death of his beloved Kiowa grandmother, Aho, in 1963 Momaday set out on his quest to learn and document the Kiowa heritage, stories, and folklore. His Kiowa-speaking father, artist Al Momaday, served as translator when Scott visited tribal elders to ask about their memories and stories. Scott gathered these stories into The Journey of Tai-me. Originally published only in a limited edition in 1967, The Journey of Tai-me is recognized as the basis from which Momaday's more popular The Way to Rainy Mountain grew. When compiling The Way to Rainy Mountain, published by the University of New Mexico Press, Momaday added his own memories and some poems.

The Way to Rainy Mountain

1976-09-01 Fiction
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Release : 1976-09-01
Genre : Fiction
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Book Synopsis The Way to Rainy Mountain by : N. Scott Momaday

Download or read book The Way to Rainy Mountain written by N. Scott Momaday. This book was released on 1976-09-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in paperback by UNM Press in 1976, The Way to Rainy Mountain has sold over 200,000 copies. "The paperback edition of The Way to Rainy Mountain was first published twenty-five years ago. One should not be surprised, I suppose, that it has remained vital, and immediate, for that is the nature of story. And this is particularly true of the oral tradition, which exists in a dimension of timelessness. I was first told these stories by my father when I was a child. I do not know how long they had existed before I heard them. They seem to proceed from a place of origin as old as the earth. "The stories in The Way to Rainy Mountain are told in three voices. The first voice is the voice of my father, the ancestral voice, and the voice of the Kiowa oral tradition. The second is the voice of historical commentary. And the third is that of personal reminiscence, my own voice. There is a turning and returning of myth, history, and memoir throughout, a narrative wheel that is as sacred as language itself."--from the new Preface

The Journey of Tai-me

1967 Kiowa Indians
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Release : 1967
Genre : Kiowa Indians
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Book Synopsis The Journey of Tai-me by : N. Scott Momaday

Download or read book The Journey of Tai-me written by N. Scott Momaday. This book was released on 1967. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

In the Bear's House

2011-10-04 Literary Collections
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Release : 2011-10-04
Genre : Literary Collections
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Book Synopsis In the Bear's House by : N. Scott Momaday

Download or read book In the Bear's House written by N. Scott Momaday. This book was released on 2011-10-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Let me say at the outset that this book is not about Bear (he would be spoken of in the singular and masculine, capitalized and without an article), or it is only incidentally about him. I am less interested in defining the being of Bear than in trying to understand something about the spirit of wilderness, of which Bear is a very particular expression. . . . Bear is a template of the wilderness."--from the Introduction Since receiving the Pulitzer Prize in 1969 for his novel House Made of Dawn, N. Scott Momaday has had one of the most remarkable careers in twentieth-century American letters. Here, in In the Bear's House, Momaday passionately explores themes of loneliness, sacredness, and aggression through his depiction of Bear, the one animal that has both inspired and haunted him throughout his lifetime. With transcendent dignity and gentleness, In the Bear's House celebrates Momaday's extraordinary creative vision and evolution as one of our most gifted artists.

The Tai Chi Journey

1989 Medical
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Release : 1989
Genre : Medical
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Book Synopsis The Tai Chi Journey by : John Lash

Download or read book The Tai Chi Journey written by John Lash. This book was released on 1989. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A form of Chinese exercise and a complete way of life. Exercises combine mind, breath, balance and parts of the body together in harmony.

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