Read the prompt below, and respond in 4-6 sentences using your best grammar, spelling, and vocabulary.
Prompt: In an interview with PBS, Scott Momaday said, “I am an Indian and I believe I’m fortunate to have the heritage I have.” Momaday connects his personal history with that of the Kiowa tribe, indicating that both personal and cultural experience have a role in forming his identity.
Explain how his experience in the following passage connects him to his ancestral heritage.
"Once I went with my father and grandmother to see the Tai-me bundle. It was suspended by means of a strip of ticking from the fork of a small ceremonial tree. I made an offering of bright red cloth, and my grandmother prayed aloud. It seemed a long time that we were there. I had never come into the presence of Tai-me before—nor have I since. There was a great holiness all about in the room, as if an old person had died there or a child had been born."