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  • N. Scott Momaday

    Navarre Scott Momaday (born February 27, ) is a Kiowanovelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet.

    Momaday was born in Lawton, Oklahoma. He is a Native American of the Kiowa people.

    His early life and education happened on Navajo, Apache, and Jemez Puebloreservations. He went to college at the University of New Mexico.

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    He got his masters and doctoral degrees at Stanford University.[1]

    In his first novel, House Made of Dawn, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.[2] He receved the National Medal of Arts in November [3] In he was given the Richard C.

    Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award from the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. That award said, "Momaday speaks for the Earth, [seeing] the natural world as a sacred space and [telling] us that humans are a part of, not apart from that world."[4]

    Momaday's writing often mixes up fiction, poetry, and non-fiction.

    In The Way to Rainy Mountain, he uses "Kiowa tribal and