Ms.Fodahl
English 11
05 Feb 14
The "Native Voices" video ties together "The Way to Rainy Mountain" by N. Scott Momaday and "Saint Marie" by Louise Endrich. How do they all tie together? They tie together because of their election with their relationship with the land and their religion.
In "The Way to Rainy Mountain" Momaday describes his grandmothers religion, how she relates to the land and he talks about her religion. Momaday also describes how the land was scared in his grandmothers eye. Aho was Momaday's grandmothers name. In July every year Momaday would return to Rainy Mountain to visit his grandmothers grave.Aho had a special thing for the sun. "My grandmother had a reverence for the sun, a holy regard that now is all but gone out of mankind (53). When Momaday's grandmother was young she had attend Sun Dance. His grandmother had also taken apart of the Sun Dances as a rites. The last Sun Dance Aho went to was the Kiowa Sun Dance in 1887. When she went to the last Dance all the buffalo we gone and never were found.
Momaday story is an example of emergence stories because his story describes what his grandmother. What Aho did was a custom. It was what she followed everyday and when everyone else did she did. Momaday's story is also oral tradition because he tells how he remembers it and what his grandmother told him. Momaday's grandmother has traditions she did when she was younger. His story about his grandma is also has religion in it. His grandma is Christian and what she did as that religion. Aho culture was also the last culture to evolve North America.
This story is one example of how cultures, religion and the relationship with the land. People believed that the land the land told stories and the people did not. As I wrote in Momaday's story he told how and what his grandmother did and how her relationship with her religion is. He describes his grandmothers culture when she was younger and what she did. His story is oral tradition but now its wrote down and told differently by other people.
