Navarre Scott Momaday (born 1934) is a Kiowa-Cherokee writer from Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Arizona.
He is the son of the writer Natachee Scott Momaday and the painter Al Momaday, and was born on February 27, 1934 at the Kiowa-Comanche Indian Hospital in Lawton, Oklahoma, United States. He is enrolled in the Kiowa Tribe of Oklahoma but also has Cherokee heritage from his mother.
Momaday's novel House Made of Dawn led to the breakthrough of Native...
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Navarre Scott Momaday (born 1934) is a Kiowa-Cherokee writer from Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Arizona.
He is the son of the writer Natachee Scott Momaday and the painter Al Momaday, and was born on February 27, 1934 at the Kiowa-Comanche Indian Hospital in Lawton, Oklahoma, United States. He is enrolled in the Kiowa Tribe of Oklahoma but also has Cherokee heritage from his mother.
Momaday's novel House Made of Dawn led to the breakthrough of Native American literature into the mainstream. It was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1969.
He was also featured in the Ken Burns and Stephen Ives' documentary, The West, for his masterful retelling of Kiowa history and legend. Momaday is also featured in another PBS documentary concerning the Battle of the Little Bighorn. Momaday is the Oklahoma Centennial Poet Laureate He has most recently been awarded a 2007 National Medal of Arts by former President George W. Bush.
Momaday founded and operates the Rainy Mountain Foundation and Buffalo...
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