Reflection #2 The Way to Rainy Mountain

The essay The Way to Rainy Mountain is about the life of momaday’s grandmother. She is part of a Native American tribe named the Kiowas. The Kiowas are one of America’s last Native American tribes to evolve. They lived in a place in Oklahoma which they called Rainy Mountain. There they experienced the worst weather. But it was a beautiful land full of .

The Kiowas had a religion in which they believed in myths and different gods. They had reverence for the sun and made rituals which they called Sun Dance.

The author’s grandmother dies and he goes to Rainy Mountain because he wants to be with her at her grave. On his way to see her, he narrates the story of her life and how was it like for her to be a Kiowas. She experienced a lot of things since she lived in one of the Kiowas’ worst times. They where forbidden to believe in their faith and ordered to disperse. But even if they where separated they still had their religion, culture and traditions.

And this is basically what the author wants to say in this essay. The culture of his people, the Kiowas, the way they lived and the way time and technology made them cease to be as they did.

Actually this essay is part of a book. This book is all about the Kiowas, Their mythology, religion, culture, traditions. It is about the journey of Momaday's Kiowa ancestors from their ancient beginnings in the Montana area to their final war and surrender to the United States at Fort Sill, and subsequent resettlement near Rainy Mountain, Oklahoma.

In conclusion this essay and book are more than history a way to make us reflect of what happened, what is happening and what could happen to some cultures, so we have to think if this is what we want to happen to many of this cultures that still exist. We know that we can learn a lot from them.