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Some experts define intelligence as the ability to adapt.

and he could see the black angles and twists of wood beneath the hard white crust; there was a shine and glitter on the ice.Without asking War Jack to stand or otherwise identify herself—Momaday knew she was a shy one—he started reading her essay.

Earth Keeper never mentions the Water Protectors or Land Defenders at the vanguard of the Indigenous rights and climate justice movements today.Momaday didnt make many explicit statements about the political questions Native Americans and the nation were grappling with at the time.presented each year to a distinguished member of the writing community who has made a strong and unique contribution to literature.

where he returns to his relations and his place among his people by performing the traditional funerary rites for his grandfather.hes sent to Los Angeles on the relocation program—the same one that shipped War Jack and so many other Native people from reservations to cities across the United States.

Two things struck me about Abel in this rereading: how close he cuts the profile of a relocated Indian who could have easily been swept up into the Indians of All Tribes or the American Indian Movement.

Momaday was just wrapping one of the last lectures of the quarter in that voice-of-God baritone that could give Morgan Freeman and James Earl Jones a run for their money.We respect his originality in all things—he first achieved fame with his novel House Made of Dawn and in the decades since has devoted his attention to poetry

our summer city guide steers clear of mainstays like the NASCAR Hall of Fame and the water rides at Carowinds.conjoined twins who had a successful career on the 20th century vaudeville circuit where they performed with Charlie Chaplin and Harry Houdini.

at a site that served as campsite and lookout post for generations of  the regions earliest residents.Were celebrating Flesh Blood IPA with a graveyard scavenger hunt: a search for the partial grave of the Hilton sisters