Storytelling through Generations of the Momaday Family

with Jill Momaday

November 19, 2026 4 PM CT

 

Jill Momaday will speak on the different forms of story within her family, using Kiowa oral tradition, poetry, visual art and film, and how it has influenced her own life and work

 

Jill Momaday is a mother, actor, writer and filmmaker whose film, Return to Rainy Mountain (PBS), documents her Kiowa heritage and life in the arts as the daughter of Pulitzer Prize-winning author, N. Scott Momaday. Raised in an artistic and literary family, Jill studied theater in Santa Fe, New Mexico and modeled in New York and Paris. Her film credits include Tony Hillerman's Coyote Waits, directed by Jan Egglesen and produced by Robert Redford; The Desperate Trail, directed by Paul

Pesche; and Silent Tongue, written and directed by Sam Shepard. She was the 2022 Jim and Linda Burke Visiting Scholar at the Doel Reed Center in Taos.