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Lawrence J. Evers Western American Literature, Volume 11, Number 4, Winter 1977, pp. 297-320 (Article) Published by University of Nebraska Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.1977.0007 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/529224/summary Access provided at 22 Feb 2020 04:32 GMT from JHU Libraries L A W R E N C E J . E V E R S University of Arizona Words and Place: a Reading of House Made of Dawn In order to consider seriously the meaning of language and of literature, we must consider first the meanings of the oral tra dition.1 N ative Am erican oral traditions are not monolithic, no r are the traditions w ith w hich M om aday works in H ouse M a d e of D a w n — Kiowa, N avajo, a n d T o w an Pueblo.2 Yet there are, he suggests, “ com m on denom inators.” 3 T w o of the most im portant of these are the native A m erican’s relation to the land a n d his regard for language. By imagining w ho and w h at they are in relation to p articular lan d scapes, cultures and
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