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Momaday (Indian History)
Title: Momaday (Indian History)
Category: Society & Culture / People
Details: Words: 580 | Pages: 2.5 (approximately 235 words/page)
Momaday (Indian History)
The Way To The Rainy Mountain
It is as hard to classify N. Scott Momaday’s The Way To The Rainy Mountain as history, as it is hard to classify Momaday as a historian. According to Marius there are four main assertions to consider before making a decision.
The first assertion is that historians study sources that tell them about the past, and they write because they see something in these sources that needs to …showed first 75 words of 580 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 580 total…say Momaday is not a historian. Momaday does not explain his stories and answers no questions throughout his book. Marius would also say the Momaday’s stories cannot be debated or argued because they are nothing more than old wives tales. And old wives tales have a habit of being changed as they pass from generation to generation. He would say, how can you be sure these are the actual stories their people originally told?
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