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The man made of words : essays, stories, passages / N. Scott Momaday.
Record details
- ISBN: 0312155816
- ISBN: 9780312155810
- ISBN: 0312187424 (pbk)
- ISBN: 9780312187422 (pbk)
- Physical Description: ix, 211 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : St. Martin's Press, 1997.
Content descriptions
- Formatted Contents Note:
- Pt. 1. The man made of words. The arrow maker -- The native voice in American literature -- To save a great voice -- A first American views his land -- An American land ethic -- On Indian-white relations : a point of view -- The morality of Indian hating ; Afterword -- The centaur complex -- A divine blindness : the place of words in a state of grace -- The American West and the burden of belief -- pt. 2. Essays in place. Sacred places -- Revisiting sacred ground -- Navajo place names -- Sacred images -- Zagorsk : to the spiritual center of Russia -- On Bavarian byways -- Granada : a vision of the unforeseen -- New Mexico : passage into legend -- The homestead on Rainy Mountain Creek -- pt. 3. The storyteller and his art. When the stars fell -- The Indian dog -- The photograph -- An encounter in Greenland -- A turning point -- Quincy Tahoma -- Jay Silverheels -- One morning in Oklahoma -- I wonder what will happen to the land -- The toll road -- Graceful and at ease -- An element of piety -- Chopetl -- Teresita -- The head of a man -- The physicians of Trinidad -- The dark priest of Taos -- The octopus -- Dreaming in place.
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| Lummi Library | PS 3563 .O47 M66 | 253661 | Stacks | Reshelving | - |
| Lummi Library | PS 3563 .O47 M66 1997 | 254231 | Stacks | Reshelving | - |
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