1. Contemporary Literature Contemporary Nonfiction

2. from The Way to Rainy Mountain N. Scott Momaday 1934 – Native American Kiowa ancestry mixed with Cherokee The Way to Rainy Mountain part legend / part history / part poetry For the reader, the inner truth blends with the outer; emotion mixes with fact The Kiowa’s journey to Rainy Mountain Landscape of the Great Plains Descends from Yellowstone River eastward to the Black Hills (in present day South Dakota) and south to the Wichita Mountains. It ends in a cemetery where many of Momaday’s Kiowa relatives are buried. Momaday’s love of the land where he grew up fuels everything he writes – we are reminded of the spiritual richness and rigors of living close to land

3. Reading Assignment Read from The Way to Rainy Mountain Pg. 998-1003