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纳瓦雷·斯科特·莫马迪,小说家、诗人、教师、画家、故事口述人,在小说、诗歌、学术、绘画、版画等方面成就卓著,是美国印第安作家中的泰斗级人物。1934年2月27日,纳瓦雷·斯科特·莫马迪出生于俄克拉何马州劳顿城的印第安医院。他的母亲梅弥·纳塔奇·斯科特(Mayme Natachee Scott)是教师和儿童文学作家。她是早期西部拓荒者的后代,曾祖母是彻罗基印第安人。他的父亲艾尔弗雷德·莫里斯·莫马迪(Alfred Morris Momaday)是画家和美术老师,来自基奥瓦部落。莫马迪刚出生,就被父母带到基奥瓦保留地生活。他的印第安名被取为“Tsoaitalee”[印第安语,意为“岩石树男孩”(Rock Tree Boy)],该名源于怀俄明州那座被基奥瓦人视为圣地的巨型岩石,也就是白人所熟知的“魔鬼塔”(Devil Tower)。
Navarre Scott M. Momadi, novelist, poet, teacher, painter and oral dictator, has made outstanding achievements in novels, poetry, academia, drawing and printmaking, and is a leading figure among American Indian writers. On February 27, 1934, Navarre Scott Mortimer was born at Indian Hospital in Lawton, Oklahoma. His mother, Mayme Natachee Scott, is a teacher and children’s literature writer. She is a descendant of the early Western pioneers, great-grandmothers are Cherokee Indian. His father, Alfred Morris Momaday, is a painter and art teacher from the Chowa tribe. When Momadi was born, she was taken to the Chiova reserve by her parents. His Indian name is taken as “Tsoaitalee” [indian, meaning “Rock Tree Boy”], a giant from Wyoming known as the holy ground by the Kiowa Rock, also known as White’s Devil Tower.