“The Bear-God dialogues” by Navarre Scott Momaday as a reflection of the national worldview of Native Americans
- DOI
- 10.5922/vestnikpsy-2026-2-6
- Pages
- 70-79
Abstract
The article analyzes the artistic model of the world in “The Bear-God Dialogues” (specifically the collection “In the Bear’s House”, 1999) by the Native American author N. Scott Momaday. It examines the influence of the beliefs of the indigenous peoples of North America on the author’s understanding of such aspects of consciousness and being as religion, language, time, space, art, and thought. The study highlights features of the Native American worldview, in which the images of God, the human being, and the animal, as well as the concept of the soul, have key conceptual significance. It also considers the interaction between Native American and Western European worldviews in the authorial consciousness of N. Scott Momaday.