Reading by Jill Scott Momaday and Natachee Momaday Gray
Jill Scott Momaday is a mother, actor, writer, and filmmaker whose film, Return to Rainy Mountain documents her Kiowa heritage and life in the arts as the daughter of Pulitzer Prize-winning author, N. Scott Momaday. Jill served as Chief of Protocol in New Mexico’s Department of Cultural Affairs from 2005 to 2010 with Governor Bill Richardson. Her film credits include Tony Hillerman's Coyote Waits, directed by Jan Egglesen and produced by Robert Redford; The Desperate Trail, directed by Paul Pesche; and Silent Tongue, written and directed by Sam Shepard. Natachee Momaday Gray is a poet and filmmaker whose work focuses on the melding of art and myth, ancestry and nostalgia, food and prayer, glamour, frivolity and time. A believer in the saying "the higher the heel, the closer to God," she is intent on composing a unique and charming color to paint her world.