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N. Scott Momaday

N. Scott Momaday is an author, scholar and poet who started a renaissance in Native American literature with his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel House Made of Dawn. Momaday received a National Medal of Arts in 2007 for works that celebrate Native American art and oral tradition.

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There Are 120 Years of Lakota History on This Calendar

The visual recording of life in the nation sheds light on a vanished culture