Abstract
On March 26, 1982 Pulitzer prize-winning novelist Dr. N. Scott Momaday visited Texas Tech University to take part in the Kiowa Symposium, an investigation into historical and contemporary issues relating to the Kiowa nation. Momaday is a novelist, poet, historian, and artist. His works include The Gourd Dancer (poems), The Way to Rainy Mountain (Kiowa folktales), an autobiography called The Names, and House Made of Dawn, a novel for which he won a Pulitzer Prize in 1969. His art hangs in galleries in Texas, New Mexico and Oklahoma, and he teaches at the University of Arizona. Our talk took place in the college museum where he had spoken the evening before. Now he is waiting to watch the Indians dancing. The conversation is relaxed; Momaday speaks with a deep resonance using cultivated speech, for he cares as much about how language sounds as how his words look on the page. In the wide hallway where we sit we can see people gathering for the presentation of Kiowa painting, beadwork, featherwork, hidework, ritual, music and dancing.
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