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    American Mosaic‚ July 2011 FOCUS: Leslie Marmon Silko‚ “Lullaby” “Lullaby” is a short story that first appeared in a book entitled Storyteller in 1981. This was a book written by Leslie M. Silko that uses short stories‚ memories‚ poetry‚ family pictures‚ and songs to present her message. The book is concerned‚ in general‚ with the tradition of story-telling as it pertains to the Native American culture. Lullaby seems to be a story of tradition‚ change‚ death‚ loss and the tensions

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    Leslie Marmon Silko is a famous novelist‚ poet‚ and short story writer whose work is primarily concerned with the relations between different cultures and between human beings and the natural world.” [ (Fajardo-Acosta) ] Silko was born in Albuquerque‚ New Mexico‚ under Laguna Pueblo‚ Plains Indians‚ and Anglo-American decent. Known as the Old Laguna‚ she grew up on the Laguna Reservation in Northern Mexico and is a part of a town formed several years ago by Pueblo tribes. “Her family was storytellers

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    for her. Because she lives in Iran‚ and is taught in school that she must by Islamic‚ Marji has to face the internal struggle of choosing between her family and her country. Tayo goes through a similar struggle in the novel “Ceremony” by Leslie Marmon Silko. Tayo being of mixed race‚ is constantly ridiculed and treated as an outsider by both sides of his culture‚ the whites and the Native Americans. Throughout “Ceremony” Tayo and a few other Native Americans frequently go to the bar. During

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    self-knowledge. Having a mix of Laguna Pueblo‚ Mexican‚ and White ancestry‚ the Native American writer Leslie Marmon Silko leans her work on identity‚ tradition and history. In her books‚ Silko deals with many issues related to American Indians. Besides‚ her half-breed character in Ceremony‚ can be perceived as a projection of her own person. Indeed‚ Alan R. Velie said in Four American Literary Masters that Silko revealed that living in Laguna Pueblo society as a mixed blood from a prominent family caused

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    Evolving Traditions In the novel‚ Ceremony‚ Leslie Marmon Silko writes about an Indian veteran and his struggle to deal with the stresses of war. Early in the novel Silko reveals some of the rituals that the Laguna Indians perform. One of these traditions is the ritual they go through after they have hunted in order to show their appreciation for the animal‚ in this case a deer. Some of the other Laguna traditions include the rain dances they perform during a draught and various other ceremonies

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    Tayo’s journey in the Novel‚ “Ceremony” by Leslie Marmon Silko borders between the cultural differences of Native American beliefs and white Americans. While presenting the difficulties during World War II and the realism of discrimination against Native‚ White‚ Asian‚ and Hispanic culture. However‚ the story focuses on Native American beliefs and the healing process that change can bring. One of the many Native American beliefs used in the novel was the guidance and understandings of animals to

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    Tayo’s Conflicts In Ceremony‚ Leslie Marmon Silko writes an interesting novel with many conflicting issues on the main characters side‚ Tayo. One of Tayo’s main conflicts is about his culture and how he is not well accepted by some of the people who coexist with him in his daily life. Other terrifying conflicts that Tayo had were the ones about Josiah and Rocky’s way of dying‚ which in Tayo’s conscious he declared himself guilty for their death. Therefore‚ he would have unhealthy psychological

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    Leslie Silko’s “Yellow Woman” In yellow woman and beauty of the spirit Leslie Silko knew she was different looking because of her mixed ancestry yellow woman helped realized that looking different was an advantage. Silko expresses how old people look at the world in a more spirit manner by “taken into consideration the way people behave‚ and the way people interact with one another”(Silko‚ 398). Basically as the author says‚ people of age seemed to look at the world very different because for them

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    Native American healing is based on the belief that everyone and everything on earth is interconnected. Not just interconnectivity within races‚ but interconnectivity amongst humans‚ the land‚ and the nonhuman. In Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony‚ the main character Tayo is both of Pueblo and Western ancestry: two racial identities that clash in their belief systems. Growing up with his Native American traditions was embedded in his way of being‚ however Western standards did not accept these traditions

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    In the article “The Border Patrol State”‚ Leslie Marmon Silko argues that borders have never worked and they never will. She says that “the great migration within the Americas cannot be stopped; human beings are natural forces of the Earth‚ just as rivers and winds are natural forces. In the article she describes a personal incident in which she and a friend were “hassled” by the Border Patrol. Silko writes about how she used to travel the highways with a sense of freedom as she cruised down t he

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