Rainy Mountain :: Essays Papers

Rainy Mountain Summary of â€Å" The Way To Rainy Mountain â€Å" ( Momaday p. 430 ) Momaday, tells the story of his grandmother and how she evolved from a land of her ancestry. She, being one of the few â€Å"belonging to the last culture to evolve in North America† (431). In a descriptive detail, Momaday, portraits the events that takes us on a journey through time before our modernized society had come into existence. A time of survival, rituals, suffering, and extinction. He starts out by setting the scenery of the place where his grandmother lived. A somewhat rigid area of the Southern Plains, where the seasons were of raging intensity. A place in time occupied by his grandmothers people, the Kiowas. A very â€Å"lordly and dangerous society of fighters and thieves, hunters and priest of the sun† (431). They had descended down out of Montana, and â€Å"war was their sacred business, and they were the finest ho rseman the world has ever known† (430). But as time had evolved into the migration of civilization, her people were forced to surrender their way of life to the soldiers. Fortunately, this was before her time. Momadays grandmother, Aho, lived an eventful life amongst her people, bearing stories of her participation in one of the last rituals of the sun-dance, which was interrupted by the soldiers.