New Mexico PBS to rebroadcast, stream episodes featuring N. Scott Momaday

Pulitzer-winning – and New Mexico resident – N. Scott Momaday died on Jan. 24.

The Native American novelist was a force in the literary world.

New Mexico PBS is honoring his legacy with rebroadcasting programs which featured Momaday.

At 5:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 3, NMPBS will broadcast “Return to Rainy Mountain.”

Based on Pulitzer Prize winning author, N. Scott Momaday, and his bestseller, “The Way to Rainy Mountain,” filmmaker Jill Momaday creates a road trip to sacred Kiowa ancestral sites that inform ancient myths, legends and oral traditions.

At 8 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 4, “Report From Santa Fe” will air a memorial piece on Momaday.

The special is an in-depth 2014 interview with an icon of American literature, Navarre Scott Momaday, known as N. Scott Momaday. An accomplished poet, novelist, playwright, painter, storyteller, and professor, Momaday was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for “House of Made of Dawn.” He was the first Native American to win the Pulitzer Prize.

Five pictures of Momaday through the years

At 8 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 6, American Masters will air “Words from a Bear,” which examines the enigmatic life and mind, as well as delves into the psyche behind one of Native America’s most celebrated authors of poetry and prose.

At 9:30 p.m., “Return to Rainy Mountain” will air again.

The two programs repeat on Wednesday, Feb. 7, at 9 and 10:30 p.m., respectively.

According to New Mexico PBS, each of the programs will be available to stream on the PBS app after the first broadcast.

Ken Burns’ “The American Buffalo” is also available to stream in PBS Passport. The two-part series features interviews with Momaday. The film traces the buffalo’s near demise – and ultimate return, while examining the species’ connection to Indigenous communities and the land.