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N. Scott Momaday

  • FILE - Kiowa writer N. Scott Momaday, who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1969 for his groundbreaking novel "House Made of Dawn," appears at his home in Santa Fe, N.M., on Nov. 13, 2019. Momaday died Jan. 24 at his home in Santa Fe, New Mexico, publisher HarperCollins announced. He had been in failing health. (AP Photo/Russell Contreras, File)
    Earth Notes
    Earth Notes: N. Scott Momaday
    Rose Houk
    The earth has always been front and center in the writings of Pulitzer Prize-winning Indigenous author N. Scott Momaday. Over the course of a career spanning more than six decades, Momaday has produced a body of work that reflects his fidelity to the land—and the belief that language can reconnect people to it.