As readers of NDQ almost certainly know, N. Scott Momaday passed away this week. Obituaries and tributes are appearing in the usual suspects: New York Times, NPR, Washington Post, and ICT. 

He was a giant of American letters and a pathbreaker for Native Americans as the first Native American author to win a Pulitzer Prize for his novel House Made of Dawn. 

We were proud to have featured Momaday’s work several times in North Dakota Quarterly. In 1985, we included a sketch of Gai-talee’s shield on the cover and an excerpt from Momaday’s The Book of Shields. 

In 2003, Momaday contributed the introduction to a special issue on Siberian Literature edited by Alexandr Vaschenko and Claude Clayton Smith. You can read it here.

(It looks like you can watch the 1972 film version of House Made of Dawn written by Momaday and Richardson Morse and staring Larry Littlebird on Youtube).