Kiowa Essays

Way to Rainy Mountain In the essay entitled "The way to Rainy Mountain" by N. Scott Momaday describes a location in which his Kiowa ancestors once lived. The Kiowa Indian reservations took place in Oklahoma and it was most sacred to the Indians. Momaday revisits his heritage on the occasion of his grandmother's death. He begins to learn about the history regarding the Kiowa tribe. Momaday explores old myths and history lessons passed down to generations. Momaday discusses how the Us Calvery invasions

Revisiting Sacred Ground and All My Relations Linda Hogan and N. Scott Momaday both take their writing inspiration from their knowledge of Native American religion and the unique tribal cultures that is in their heritage. Momaday’s heritage is the Kiowa culture which is often mentioned in and plays a large role in his writings as well as how he views the world. Hogan very rarely speaks of her heritage in her writings, however she is of Chickasaw decent so it can be assumed that her writing is derived

The creation myth found in The Way to Rainy Mountain fulfills the characteristics described on page 33. This myth describes how the universe and life began. For example, “it (tree) began to rise into the air …the seven sisters were borne into the sky, and they became the stars of the Big Dipper” (55). Secondly, The Way to Rainy Mountain creation myth explains the workings of the natural world. By way of illustration, the seven sisters came to the stump of a tree while being chased by a bear,

The story “Earth on Turtle’s back” expressed the beliefs the native Americans held which were reflected in their myths such as in this story. The native American’s believed that each living thing has a has a unique power and each thing affects the other. The techniques the author used such as using setting, plot, and characterization to bring out the story, gave meaning to the story and developed the theme. The theme of story is the respect for the animals. “The Earth on Turtle’s Back” demonstrates

introducing the audience to the Kiowa people, a Native American tribe that lived originally in Oklahoma. In the opening of his essay, Momaday uses ethos

Mountain for the burial of his grandmother. He begins to relate stories that his grandmother used to tell when the Kiowas were living through the last great moment in their history. “For more than a hundred years they had controlled the open range from the Smokey Hill River to the Red River, from the headwaters of the Canadian to the fork of the Arkansas and the Cimarron.” The Kiowas were a strange people whose culture was the last to evolve in North America. His grandmother's forebears came from

N. Scott Momaday does not try to be unbiased; he uses description to show how he feels about his subject, about the land his people once ruled. Momaday writes about his people’s history and its relation to his grandmother. He seems proud of the Kiowas when he describes them as “a lordly and dangerous society.” Each description of what he sees is colored by his love of his grandmother and his pride

There currently are about 9.2 million horses in North America. They are widespread with many breeds and disciplines that each horse fits into. Horses did not always inhabit North America as they do now. Roughly four hundred years ago the horse made it to America through Spanish soldiers, also known as conquistadores. These conquistadores successfully conquered parts of Mexico and South America before traveling north to the southwestern portion of what is now today’s United States in the 1540’s in

Across time, Okies faced hardships and difficulties like discrimination. This problem comes along for Okies in Jerry Stanley's Children of the Dust Bowl. This book extends with Okies traveling to California which was described as a paradise but instead was greeted with hostility and prejudice. Despite all that, the Okies worked together with Leo hart to build Weedpatch school. Jerry Stanley tries to inform the reader about how the Okies worked together to change their hardships into hope. Stanley’s

Kiowa Tim O’Brien uses many different methods of characterization to create the character Kiowa in The Things They Carried. There is use of four of the five methods of characterization, two methods used most are, what a character says and does and the author commenting directly. O’Brien uses both types of characterization to fabricate how Kiowa’s personality, beliefs and how he affects others. O’Brien usually shows beliefs through direct characterization, “Kiowa always took along his New Testament

presentation focused on the development of art and dance in the Kiowa tribe of Oklahoma. Through the use of art and dance, the native american peoples of the Kiowa tribe have long explained their histories, told their stories, and created biographical accounts of their lives. These forms of expression made for the basis of the Kiowa culture and identity, centuries before extensive contact was made with the european colonists. Traditionally, the “kiowa ideal male” was a strong and independent warrior, which

Iroquois envisioned that women were responsible for crops. All in all, to the Iroquois, women began the creation of the whole planet and saw that the Earth grew to what it is, and they are still responsible for growing the food. On the other hand, the Kiowa convey a story where women were innocent; they were one with nature; and they were bright. It was the women that were attacked by the man that morphed into a bear. Also, women had such a great connection with nature that the tree saved them from man

written by Tim O’Brien, the author presents Kiowa as a complex and intelligent troop by using multiple indirect and sometimes confusing quotes like, “The earth is slow, but the buffalo is patient…” (O’Brien 35). It is for these mystical and spiritual quotes/characteristics why I chose to write this essay over him. I found some of these characterizations through the character’s thoughts, his actions/what he says, and what others say about him. Overall Kiowa was known for being a kind troop, a man with

stay sane? How much longer can you convince yourself that everything is fine? It’s vital to uphold one’s spirits and sense of civilization during these difficult moments in the face of death and emotional distress. Tim O’ Brien uses the character of Kiowa in

Kiowa is a character in the book The Things They Carried written by Tim O’Brien. His short fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, Esquire, Harper's, The Atlantic, Playboy, and Ploughshares, and in several editions of The Best American Short Stories and The O. Henry Prize Stories. In 1987, O'Brien received the National Magazine Award for the short story, “The Things They Carried,” and in 1999 it was selected for inclusion in THE BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES OF THE CENTURY edited by John Updike (Biography

coping with it. One character, Kiowa, acts as the glue that holds Alpha Company together. He is always there for his fellow soldiers. In the novel The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien uses the character Kiowa’s connection to culture, sympathetic nature, and lasting impact on the Alpha Company to highlight the theme that everyone manages the

after war; meanwhile, the character that I can relate to is Kiowa. Kiowa is the Native American Christian-born soldier who goes with the flow and listens to those in need. During O’Brien grieving over killing a man, Kiowa had this to say, “I’ll tell you the straight truth, the guy was dead the second he stepped on the trail. . . We all had him zeroed. . . So listen, you best pull your shit together. Can’t just sit here all day” (123). By Kiowa confronting O’Brien, he feels he’s doing God’s call by being

in the sewage field, the soldiers look for Kiowa 's body. Jimmy Cross helps in the search and watches his men. He sees a young soldier (this is presumably O 'Brien, but O 'Brien has chosen to tell this story in the third person) standing off by himself, shaking, in his own world. Cross thinks about Kiowa 's death, and how Kiowa, a brave and decent kid, absolutely didn 't deserve to die in a field of sewage. He thinks about what he 's going to write to Kiowa 's father, and how he shouldn 't mention

trying to survive themselves. In the Reading a soldier named Kiowa is missing and the eighteen soldiers are trying to look for him. Their mission is difficult because their trying to him in the rain and it’s muddy. In the reading “Man, talk about irony. I bet if Kiowa was here, I bet he’d just laugh. Eating shit”, (O’Brien, 1255). The irony in this sentence is that Kiowa is the one soldier that joke around and made people feel good. Kiowa is missing and they are trying to find

which later found out to be a sink hole. The moltar started coming off the camp. Kiowa was caught in with the tragedy. Bowker tried to save Kiowa, but was unsuccessful to save his own life. When the third round hit, Kiowa began screaming. Bowker saw Kiowa sink into the muck and grabbed him by the boot to pull him out. Yet Kiowa was lost, so Bowker let him go in order to save himself from sinking deeper into the muck. Kiowa then died when he sank. Bowker was very sad and upset after he was forced to