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It's a real pleasure to welcome
Scott Momaday here tonight.

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He is a Regents Professor
of English, as most of you

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know, here at the
University of Arizona.

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I won't recite his many awards,
and his many publications,

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but I would like to mention two
recent publications that he's

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been telling us about
today, because I think

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they're very, very special.

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Some of you know, Scott Momaday
started off by writing poetry,

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then turned his
attention to fiction.

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Subsequently published--
what would you

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call the genre of The
Way to Rainy Mountain,

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tribal autobiography, perhaps?

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Then began to paint,
and most recently

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has been writing plays, and I
had the pleasure of attending

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the reading of his play,
The Indolent Boys at Harvard

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University, recently
this winter,

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a play about the Indian boarding
school experience in Oklahoma.

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I also want to mention,
secondly, a recent publication

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of his, In The
Presence of the Sun

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which is a book of writing and
art that he has accomplished.

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A trade edition of that will be
published by St Martin's Press

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sometime this year.

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So please join with me in
welcoming Scott Momaday.

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[APPLAUSE]

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