Jan. 29 (UPI) --Native American author, poet and visual artist N. Scott Momaday, whose novel House Made of Dawn was awarded the 1969 Pulitzer Prize for fiction, has died, his daughter said Monday.

A recent episode of PBS documentary series "Finding Your Roots" featured Rita Dove, an award-winning poet from Akron.

I am, Whitman would say, a native American ... is that it would celebrate the American self, the I. Poetry and national unity: Kenneth Price, an American literature professor and Whitman ...