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indiistrialized world of contemporary America in Los Angeles. In writing the novel, Momaday drew on his own childhood experiences of growing up on reservańons through the turbulent era of World War II. His portrayal of Abel describes tlie difficnlt experience of many young Native Americans dnring the twentieth centuiy Indian relocation efforts, the stmggle to enter the industrial work force, tlie isolation of reservations. and tlie harmfnl effects of alcoholism. In House Madę of Dawn, Momaday uses a combination of orał tales and personal imagination to eloqnently pass on the stories his Kiowa fathers told him as a child—a task to which he had felt bound sińce birtli.

■    widely credited as leading the way for the breakthrongh of Nahve American literaturę into the mainstream. It was awarded the Pulitzer Prize forFiction in 1969, and has also been noted for its significance in Native American Anthropology

■    S tri king. after war experience cannot relocate, feels alien; participation in white world

■    Embodiment of evil - white man - he kills him

■    In the city he feels isolated and disconnected from the people

■    City section - introdiiced John

■    White people abuse writing

■    Message - on the one hand positive, on tlie other band tlie reservation and entire community is difficnlt to conduct

■    Written in modernishc modę

The Wąy (o Rainy Mounlain

It is about the joumey of Momadays Kiowa ancestors from tlieir ancient beginnings in the M on ta na area to their finał war and surrender to the United States Cavalry at Fon Sili, and snbsequent resettlement near Rainy Mountain. Oklahoma.

The book is divided into tliree main parts: The Setring Out, wliich consists of eariy Kiowa legends and anthropological studies on tlie Kiowa people. Tlie second part, The Going On, continues with the tlieme of Kiowa mytliology, and discnsses tlie origins of Tai-me and the Sun Dance Ritual. The last section, the Clasing In, describes the end of the Kiowa golden age and has a lot to do with the death of tlie Kiowa culture.

Each chapter is also divided into three parts. Tlie first consists of the mytliological stories of the Kiowas. tlie second focuses on tlie actual liistory of the Kiowa tribe, and tlie tliird part is the autlior's own observations from wlien he retraced tlie long joumey to Rainy Mountain his ancestors had taken. As tlie book draws to an end, tliese parts start to combine, the mytliology becomes morę liistorical, the liistory becomes morę personal. and the personal tales become morę mytliological.

■    Opisuje sytuacje Indian w Ameryce

■    Vine Deloria - Native American liistory

■    “Custer Died foryour Sins: An Indian Manifesto” (1969) - in fact, tliis is like sth happens to liim all tlie time; a lot of włiat ciren lates in American culture is a stereotype

■    Postulałeś self-governance

■    Situation will improve if they liave tlie power in their own hands

■    l^- paragraph provides a context of mytliical times

■    Points out the tradition, liistory, mytliical times

■    Time connected to sacred geography like, for instance, the rainy mountain

■    Places his ancestors were looking through continuity

■    Theres language wliich becomes the most important element, have got the power of changing

■    Geography from one point of view, on the other there s Ig

-    Time

-    Geography

-    Language

■    Every time you save personal stoty it becomes a cultural event

■    Describes a sense of community, it is gone but doesirt mean; tradition is gone because theres language and geography