Search results for "Kiowa"
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Review of Oklahoma: Kiowa Military Societies: Ethnohistory And Ritual, by William C. Meadows
2011
William C. Meadows’ book represents the last significant ethnographical work to result from over twenty years of anthropological observation among the Kiowa, Comanche and Apache. The presented case-study of these indigenous military societies focuses on their strong martial ethos and warrior culture that preserves peculiar and secular social sodalities over time.
Wordarrows: El poder representativo del lenguaje en la obra de no ficción de N. Scott Momaday
2012
This article focuses on two non-fiction works by Native American author N. Scott Momaday: his 1969 historical memoir The Way to Rainy Mountain and his essay collection The Man Made of Words. It specifically tackles performative conceptions of language in the Kiowa storytelling tradition, where words are experienced as speech acts that have the power to intervene in surrounding realities. Taking into account 20th century ethno-cultural and linguistic policies in the United States, the article also reflects on the role indigenous languages may play in contemporary Native American Literature, which has most often been written in English.