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To look upon that landscape in the early morning, with the sun at your back, is to lose the sense of proportion.

To look upon that landscape in the early morning, with the sun at your back, is to lose the sense of proportion.

N. Scott Momaday
Morning, Sun, Looks
N. Scott Momaday (1976). “The Way to Rainy Mountain”, p.5, UNM Press

Loneliness is an aspect of the land.

N. Scott Momaday
Loneliness, Land, Aspect
N. Scott Momaday (1976). “The Way to Rainy Mountain”, p.5, UNM Press

He used both hands when he made the bear. Imagine a bear proceeding from the hands of God.

N. Scott Momaday
Hands, Bears, Imagine

The Kiowas reckoned their stature by the distance they could see.

N. Scott Momaday
Distance, Stature
N. Scott Momaday (1976). “The Way to Rainy Mountain”, p.7, UNM Press

My father was a painter and he taught art. He once said to me, 'I never knew an Indian child who could not draw.'

N. Scott Momaday
Art, Children, Father

The turn of the century was the lowest point for the devastation of Indian culture by disease and persecution, and it's a wonder to me that they survived it and have not only maintained their identity, but are actually growing stronger in some ways. The situation is still very bad, especially in certain geographical areas, but there are more Indians going to school, more Indians becoming professional people, more Indians assuming full responsibility in our society. We have a long way to go, but we're making great strides.

N. Scott Momaday
School, Responsibility, Growing Stronger

In the beginning was the word, and it was spoken.

N. Scott Momaday
Bible, Christ Consciousness, Bread Of Life
N. Scott Momaday, Al Momaday (1969). “The Way to Rainy Mountain”, p.7, UNM Press

My line of vision was such that the creature filled the moon like a fossil. It had gone there, I thought, to live and die, for there, of all places, was its small definition made whole and eternal

N. Scott Momaday
Moon, Vision, Gone
N. Scott Momaday (1976). “The Way to Rainy Mountain”, p.12, UNM Press

Although my grandmother lived out her long life in the shadow of Rainy Mountian, the immense landscape of the continental interior lay like memory in her blood

N. Scott Momaday
Memories, Grandmother, Blood
N. Scott Momaday (1976). “The Way to Rainy Mountain”, p.7, UNM Press

Her name is Ago, and she belonged to the last culture to evolve in North America.

N. Scott Momaday
Names, America, Culture

I have a pretty good knowledge of the Indian world by virtue of living on several different reservations and being exposed to several different cultures and languages.

N. Scott Momaday
Different, Culture, World

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