N. Scott Momaday, Pulitzer Prize winner and giant of Native American literature, dead at 89 N. Scott Momaday has died at age 89 after becoming a Pulitzer Prize-winning storyteller, poet, educator and folklorist.

"... Momaday became the first Native American to win the fiction Pulitzer, and his novel helped launch a generation of authors, including Leslie Marmon Silko, James Welch and Louise Erdrich."

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1934-2024
Born on this day

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He received numerous honors and awards, including the National Medal of Arts and the first Lifetime Achievement Award from the Native Writers’ Circle of the Americas.

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Nov. 1: Joy Harjo (Muscogee Nation)
Nov. 2: N. Scott Momaday (Kiowa Tribe)

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Moonrise 05/09/2025

September is a long Illusion of itself.

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A social post from @lifeboatacademy which says: “We are what we imagine. Our very existence consists in our imagination of ourselves. Our best destiny is to imagine, at least, completely, who and what, and that we are. The greatest tragedy that can befall us is to go unimagined.” — N. Scott Momaday

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“The highest human purpose is always to reinvent and celebrate the sacred.” — N. Scott Momaday Image of a pool of water with tree roots wrapped around it and ferns and grass peppered about. The pool reflects the plants around it and the sky and canopy of evergreens above it. @lifeboatacademy

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The Death of Sitting Bear: New and Selected Poems by N. Scott Momaday "These are the poems of a master poet. . . . When you read these poems, you will learn to hear de...

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N. Scott Momaday books: top reads by pioneering author - How To Be Books Recommended books by Pulitzer Prize-winning author N Scott Momaday, the pioneer of Native American literature with 'House Made of Dawn.'

N. Scott Momaday books: top reads by pioneering Native American author, who died aged 89

"His Kiowa heritage was deeply meaningful to him and he devoted much of his life to celebrating and preserving Native American culture"

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