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Navarre Scotte Momaday February 27, —January 24, was a Kiowa and American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet. In a tribute published upon his death, Joy Harjo Mvskoke , 23rd Poet Laureate of the United States , noted that in House Made of Dawn , "Momaday found a way to move eloquently between oral storytelling forms and the written English novel form.

The trajectory of the book moves from sunrise to sunrise, making a circle—a story structure recognizable in Indigenous oral history , yet following traditional American literary shape and expectations of a novel. Momaday received the National Medal of Arts in 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 , [ 3 ] and was a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Scott Momaday's mother was Mayme 'Natachee' Scott Momaday — , who Momaday stated was to be of English, Irish, French, and "some degree of Cherokee" descent , [ 7 ] [ 8 ] [ 9 ] born in Fairview, Kentucky , [ 10 ] while his father was Alfred Morris Momaday, who was a full-blooded Kiowa.

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Scott Momaday was one year old, his family moved to Arizona, where both his father and mother became teachers on a reservation. To challenge himself, Momaday spent his final year of high school at the Augusta Military Academy in Virginia. In a interview for the PBS show American Masters , the director Jeff Palmer asked Momaday what knowledge would he want to pass on to younger generations.

He responded: "I would want them to be mindful of that fact that at the beginning of the 20th Century say, I was born in a house in Oklahoma , which had no electricity, no plumbing. We would be considered at the very bottom of the scale in terms of land and poverty.