The Way to Rainy Mountain

N. Scott Momaday starts the book out by talking about his grandma and what she had lived through. I had to look up how old Momaday was in order to get a better understanding of about how old his grandmother was and teh years she might have lived through. Looking at the history of the United States in the 1880's through 1900 there was a lot of adversity against the races living here. Native American resistance to the changes were being quelled by the United States Army and men like Geronimo and Sitting Bull were still alive. To be alive and to witness the ending of a way of life that had been going on for centuries must have been terrible.