The Way to Rainy Mountain

The Way to Rainy MountainThe Way to Rainy Mountain recalls the journey of Tai me, the sacred Sun Dance doll, and of Tai me's people in three unique voices: the legendary, the historical, and the contemporary. It is also the personal journey of N. Scott Momaday, who on a pilgrimage to the grave of his Kiowa grandmother traversed the same route taken by his forebears and in so doing confronted his Kiowa heritage. It is an evocation of three things in particular: a landscape

amaranth crackers with smoked white bean paste

among the young and the old

dedicated activism

She was born and lives in Imniza Ska

In language as perceptive as it is poignant

and activists from that movement

"Louis Warren's Buffalo Bill's America leapt past decades of writing to become the definitive treatment of the Wild West show

A favorite of mine

she moved on to teach American Indian Studies at UW-Madison

The last five pieces are "histories" that repeat subjects and themes found in the earlier section

In remembering

Treuer grew up on the Leech Lake Reservation