Laguna Pueblo

that her culture is the only culture that except her. Silko realizes she was different from others; her skin color differed from her friends and family's. Silko explains how the Laguna Pueblo people have no gender roles and how sexuality is embraced. The structure of the story helps convince the reader that the Laguna Pueblo people work together as a community to benefit everyone as a whole. The stories told also give Silko hope, about how differences can bring great benefits to her people. The stories

stress disorder which has affected him physically as well as emotionally due to the fact that he has survived as a prisoner of war in Japan. Consequently he must deal with all of the horrific memories when he returns to live with his family on the Laguna Pueblo reservation in New Mexico. To compound his problems, Tayo is half Caucasian and half Native American, so he must also deal with the added pressures of bi-culturalism. He is torn between the Native American world and the white world, and is unable

you just keep on going forward with your life because everyone is beautiful in their own little way. Leslie Marmon Silko is a Native American of the Laguna Pueblo people. She speaks about her people's interactions with the antelope people and the way her people haunted them. Silko goes on to tell her people's tale of the earth's origin. The Laguna Pueblo people have a more personal relationship with their plants. Her grandma A'mood would tell Silko stories when she was younger about some stuff that

I was aware that I was different. I looked different from my playmates. My two sisters looked different too.” After she stated this, she talks about why she was different from the other Laguna Pueblo people growing up by explaining her great grandfather’s past. “Both brothers married full-blood Laguna Pueblo women.”

People express themselves in many different ways, drawing, dancing, writing and many more. Leslie Marmon Silko, born in March, 1948 is a Laguna Pueblo writer and a key figure of literature. She has written many recognized books and stories and is well known in the writing industry. She is a writer that utilizes structure elements to embrace her writing. A great book of hers is the “Yellow Women and a Beauty of the Spirit” published on December 19, 1993. This is a book based on true events of her

Ceremony by Leslie Mormon Silko is a work of Native American literature. The novel itself is a ceremony of healing for Tayo, a World War II veteran, who returns to the Laguna Pueblo Reservation. Tayo turns to the tribe’s powerful ceremonies and stories for the healing process. Silko believes, to Native Americans, a story is part of a web that entangles all the ceremonies, beliefs, and traditions of their culture. By containing these ceremonies and rituals, stories have the power to heal. I agree

The historical context of the Laguna Pueblo reservation deals with the Native American culture, as well as with the differing racial views of that time. The people of the Laguna Pueblo reservation had a respect for the land they lived on. Exhibiting the beliefs of most Native American tribes, they always hunted in certain places and knew the balance of the earth. When other people, the “white people” (page 172), started to overtake the land, they knew they would not be able to stop them from

which one to identify with, and in turn understand one’s true self. Ceremony, by Leslie Marmon Silko, explores the differences between Pueblo and Western cultures. Silko, delineates the differences of the two cultures through the eyes of the protagonist, Tayo, a half Pueblo and half white man. Tayo is seen as confused and broken after he returns to the Laguna Pueblo conservation, from fighting in World War II. He battles both physically and mentally as he strives to find peace and his true identity

be useful to the study of Native American culture. Key Words: Native American Identity, Leslie Marmon Silko, Globalization, Oral Tradition, Hybridity, Laguna Pueblo Tribe Leslie Marmon Silko is a Native American writer of the Laguna Pueblo tribe. She was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico and grew up on the Laguna Pueblo Reservation. Her career includes an

Leslie Marmon Silko has an enormous garden. It was started at her home in the Laguna Pueblo reservation, and took root in the desert there. While, like all the other Laguna families there, her home did have a vegetable garden and some flowers to add splashes of lively color, when Silko would come to grow her own garden, it would be planted with words instead of seeds. Nourished by sun-warmed sand and supported by the spirits of her ancestors, Silko’s words would grow, never to be cropped short or