Summary of The Way To Rainy Mountain ( 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 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 lordly and dangerous society of fighters and thieves, hunters and priest of the sun (431). They had descended down out of Montana, and war was their sacred business, and they were the finest horseman 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. Other stories told which she had no prior experience was of the Crows, whom helped the Kiowas in their transition from the mountains, to the plains. A legend amongst their people that transformed a child into a bear, chasing after the other children who were hurled to the sky by a tree, and borne into the stars known as the Big Dipper (432). She recalled the antagonizing suffering of her people as the...
