Ancient Child -- Scott Momaday Research Proposal

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In this excerpt, her mature medicine woman attitude shows clearly that she has grown up. That doesn't mean that she isn't attracted sexually to Set, but there is a reverence now and an appreciation for his needs that perhaps readers didn't see previously. And on page 297 the desire that Set feels for Grey is a sweeter, more casual lead-in to sexual foreplay. "Their hands slipped over their bodies, describing desire, but yet discreetly." They both have grown by now.

As for the characters' achievement of modern American Indian identity, the way it interfaces the history of the Old West (to wit, Billy the Kid) with modern tends to bring the fictional aspect of the book into a brighter spotlight than Native American cultural reality.

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Grey's character, in particular, reveals some truth about medicine and how Indians understand that medicine comes to them. And as Karen Wallace writes in her book Liminality and Myth in Native American Fiction: Ceremony and The Ancient Child, Momaday avoids presenting the Native Americans as "the Noble Savage" that is part of a "dying race." In that sense, it is an enjoyable if not totally realistic story.

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