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A 3 page discussion of the differences in the way Sherman Alexie and N. Scott Momaday depict Native American culture. This paper asserts that they aren’t sending different messages to different audiences. The audience is the same and the threats are the same. They just choose to illustrate those threats differently. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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File: AM2_PPnalitalexiemomaday.rtf
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only in the way that they experience their own culture but also in the way that they choose to express that culture to others. This variation is particularly interesting
when it occurs among Native American authors, those individuals that make their livings using words as tools to describe circumstances, history, and even their deepest emotions. A prime example
can be found in a comparison of the work of Sherman Alexie and N. Scott Momadays "The Way to Rainy Mountain". While Alexie largely approaches his subject as though
Native American culture is practically going extinct, Momaday provides a reassurance that indeed that culture is alive and well in modern day America.
As might be expected, there are several explanations for the variations in the way these authors approach their subject. First, Momadays "The Way to Rainy Mountain" was
written in the 1970s. Some have argued that Momaday was writing to a different audience than that to which Alexie is addressing with his more recent work. The
gist of this argument is that Native American culture has deteriorated much more than it had in the 1970s, that modern Native Americans are in actuality much more oppressed by
government regulations and society as a whole than they were in this earlier time. The argument presented above in an attempt
to explain why some authors depict Native American culture more positively than do others is simply not valid. If anything the oppression that had been endured by earlier Native
American authors like Momaday, his father, and their ancestors was considerably greater than that experienced in modern day America. The 1970s, after all, were not far removed from the
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