The Way to Rainy Mountain

When I first began to read "The Way to Rainy Mountain" I became lost in what the true theme of the story was. In my opinion the point of Scott Moaday's essay was not to inform about the heritage of the tribe, but instead to focus on the history of his grandmother. All of the facts about the Kiowa tribe which he uses come from his grandmother's stories. This concept came across strong in the sentence "Although my grandmother lived out her long life in the shadows of Rainy Mountain, the immense landscape of the continental interior lay like memory in her blood. To me, this shows the strong ties the grandmother had to where she came from. 
I did not like this essay as much as the essay "Ground Zero", but both essays do discuss interesting topics. I think "The Way to Rainy Mountain" is a well written essay in which a history of his grandmother's life is remembered.