Names A Memoir

"'The Names' is an Indian book, but not a book about wrongs done to Indians. It is a search and a celebration, a book of identities and sources. Momaday is the son of parents who successfully bridged the gulf between Indian and white ways, but remain Indian. In boyhood Momaday made the same choice, and in making it gave himself the task of discovering and in some degree inventing the tradition and history in which he finds his most profound sense of himself...."Momaday, N. Scott is the author of 'Names A Memoir', published 1987 under ISBN 9780816510467 and ISBN 0816510466.