Reflection #2: The way to Rainy Mountain

Hi, I'm going to talk about "The Way to Rainy Mountain". The truth is that I didn't understand it that much so I didn't like it either.

The story is about an old woman that was raise in a tribe. She helps the tribe to rise again. She gave them hope, cultures, history and other things. The tribe was called "The Kiowa". They were allies of the Comanche and together they rule the whole of the southern Plains. They were among the finest horseman the world has ever known. One day the soldiers of Fort Sill came and the Kiowas began to panic. Suddenly they surrender to them and were imprisoned in the old stone corral that now stands as a military museum. They were behind the walls like eight or ten years.

The name of the old woman was Aho. She reverence the sun, she also was a Christian in her later years. When she was a child she had been to the Sun Dances and take part in those annual rites. When she was seven it held the last Kiowa Sun Dance in 1887 on the Washita River above Rainy Mountain Creek.

The old woman had a grandson and he is the one telling the story. He remember her like it was yesterday. Also remember a day when he saw her praying looking at the window but he couldn't understand because he doesn't speak Kiowa language.

Appearance was something that differences them from others. His grandson is sad because his grandma died. When she died her only daughter was with her. So he is going to Rainy Mountain to visit her grave and in the way he remember all the moments they spend together. When he got there he look at the mountain and came away.