Summary Of The Way To Rainy Mountain

"The Way to Rainy Mountain" by Al Monaday, is a memoir about his grandmother and their culture. He describes the landscape of Wichita Range now known as Rainy Mountain. He is visiting his grandmothers grave, and while there he starts to remember some of the stories that she told him about the Kiowa culture. The history, the myths, and the rise and downfall of the Kiowa culture. Aho, his grandmother was from "the last culture to evolve in North America."(80). His ancestors were a mysterious tribe that didn't have a clear language, and migrated to the south and east. Once they met the Crow tribe they started to evolve. His grandmother and Kiowa culture had reverence for the sun and what it brought. Even after his grandmother lost her culture