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Article: Keepsakes: Using Family Stories in Elementary Classrooms.
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- The Social Studies
- Article date:
- July 1, 1998
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Linda Winston. Portsmouth, N.H.: Heinemann, 1997. 138 pp. Paperbound. ISBN 0435-07235-8 $19.50. 1-800-541-2086.
N. Scott Momaday, winner of a Pulitzer Prize, retells his father's traditional Kiowa story of an arrowmaker. He reports that he loved to hear the story and his father loved to tell and retell it. Momaday states that it remains "for me one of the most intensely vital stories in my experience, not only because it is a supernal example of the warrior idea - an adventure story in the best sense - but because it is a story about story, about the efficacy of language and the power of words." The arrowmaker is indeed "a man made of words." Momaday reports that he ...