N Scott Momaday

The reason N. Scott Momaday thinks the stories of his people are important is because he wants to pass them down to more people so they are not forgotten. ”I was first told these stories by my father when I was a child, I do not know how long they existed before I heard them.” That’s why I believe N. Scott Momaday wrote his whole novel. When his dad told him the stories N. Scott Momaday thought they were interesting and important. That’s when he decided to write a whole novel about it. From the quote we can see he had no idea when these stories were written, they could be from the beginning of time or they could just be a figment of somebody’s imagination. If the author himself doesn’t know when the stories are written who does know when