Navarre Scotte Momaday (né Mammedaty; February 27, 1934 – January 24, 2024) was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet. His novel House Made of Dawn was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1969, and is considered the first major work of the Native American Renaissance.
Momaday received the National Medal of Arts in 2007 for his work’s celebration and preservation of Indigenous oral and art tradition. He held 20 honorary degrees from colleges and universities, the last of which was from the California Institute of the Arts in 2023,[2] and was a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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Articles in Western American Literature:
Engaging the Politics and Pleasures of Indigenous Aesthetics, by Chadwick Allen
“image and word cannot be divided”: N. Scott Momaday and Kiowa Ekphrasis, by William M. Clements
Pan-Indianism and Tribal Sovereignties in House Made of Dawn and The Names, by P. Jane Hafen
Self-Hatred and Spiritual Corruption in House Made of Dawn, by Bernard A. Hirsch
The Bear’s Son Folk Tale in When the Legends Die and House Made of Dawn, by Nora Baker Barry
Endings in Contemporary American Indian Fiction, by David B. Espey
Words and Place: A Reading of House Made of Dawn, by Lawrence J. Evers
Additional Resources:
Western Writers Series, Boise State University: N. Scott Momaday
Western American Literature Research 