Question
This place’s name opens a chant that Joy Harjo calls one of the world’s most complex poems, the last of John Bierhorst’s Four Masterworks of American Indian Literature. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this place invoked with he-rain, she-rain, and pollen in the “Night Chant.” In a novel titled for this place, a veteran smears ash on himself and joins runners singing about it after the death of his grandfather.
ANSWER: house made of dawn [or Tségihi; or house of dawn; or dawn-house; prompt on house]
[10e] Washington Matthews’s rendition of the Night Chant uses this action to translate hózhó naashá. A woman performs this three-word action “like the night” in a Lord Byron poem.
ANSWER: walking in beauty [accept “She Walks in Beauty”]
[10h] Kenneth Roemer cites the scene from N. Scott Momaday’s House Made of Dawn in which Ben sings the Night Chant as a “ceremony” of this concept. In Manifest Manners, Chippewa poet Gerald Vizenor coined this neologism for the active “continuance of native stories.”
ANSWER: survivance
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Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Exact Match? | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 Chicago Open | 07/28/2024 | Y | 15 | 12.67 | 93% | 27% | 7% |