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Connection Between Content and Form in The Way to Rainy Mountain and House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday

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has a unique presentation within his works. In "House Made of Dawn" (1968) Momaday relates the story of Abel, a young Jemez Pueblo Indian returning from World War II and  who goes about a journey of self-discovery in which Momaday intermingles Abels imaginative thoughts, mythical stories and reality throughout. In "The Way to Rainy Mountain" (1969) an autobiographical collection, Momaday  recounts his own journey back to Rainy Mountain through a series of poems, legends, drawings and historical facts about the Kiowa Indians. In both works, Momaday uses a fragmented format  which reflects the fragmentation of the content which is occurring within the central characters. This fragmentation gradually comes together by the end of each work to present the reader and  the characters with a sense of the "whole" person used to describe Abel and Momaday in their journeys of return and self-discovery. When  N. Scott Momaday, a young unknown painter, poet and scholar won the Pulitzer Prize for his first novel, "House Made of Dawn" in 1969, it opened up the literary world  to the works of Native American authors. The awarding of this novel brought a long overdue recognition to Native American literature, poetry and essays which had long since been regarded  from an anthropological or historical perspective rather than a literary genre and reflects the 1960s commitment to human rights and cultural recognition (Roemer, 2002).  "House Made of Dawn" fulfilled a much needed gap in the literary teachings of the American school system as it provided an understanding of the "other" from within  this society and incorporated historical significance of the Native American. The novel was a combination of oral and written literatures and a combination of New Mexican and urban environments which