While her parents worked, Silko and her two sisters were cared for by their grandmother, Lillie Stagner, and great-grandmother, Helen Romero, both story-tellers.

Silko grew up on the edge of Pueblo society both literally – her family's house was at the edge of the Laguna Pueblo reservation – and figuratively, as she was not permitted to participate in various tribal rituals or join any of the Pueblo's religious societies. Leslie Marmon Silko was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico to Leland Howard Marmon, a noted photographer, and Mary Virginia Leslie, a teacher, and grew up on the Laguna Pueblo Indian reservation.

( December 2022) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources in this section. Urn:oclc:802069885 Scandate 20100601140558 Scanner scribe8.la.archive.This section needs additional citations for verification. OL2004614W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 92.39 Pages 280 Ppi 400 Related-external-id urn:isbn:0451098749 Urn:lcp:ceremony00silk:epub:ddf318bc-ea8c-45d7-9e1e-e2ed920a0a3f Extramarc University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (PZ) Foldoutcount 0 Identifier ceremony00silk Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t2q539356 Isbn 0140086838ħ6046936 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Openlibrary OL2538273M Openlibrary_edition Drawn to his Indian past and its traditions, his search for comfort and resolution becomes a ritual-a curative ceremony that defeats his despairĪccess-restricted-item true Addeddate 21:05:09 Bookplateleaf 0002 Boxid IA110716 Camera Canon 5D City New York, N.Y. 'Demanding but confident and beautifully written' (Boston Globe), this is the story of a young Native American returning to his reservation after surviving the horrors of captivity as a prisoner of the Japanese during World War II. The search itself becomes a ritual, a curative ceremny that defeats the most virulent of afflictions-despair. Tayo's quest leads him back to the Indian past and its traditions, to beliefs about witchcraft and evil, and to the ancient stories of his people. While other returning soldiers find easy refuge in alcohol and senseless violence, Tayo searches for another kind of comfort and resolution. His return to the Laguna Pueblo reservation only increases his feeling of estrangement and alienation. Tayo, a young Native American, has been a prisoner of the Japanese during World War II, and the horrors of captivity have almost eroded his will to survive. This story, set on an Indian reservation just after World War II, concerns the return home of a war-weary Laguna Pueblo young man. Originally published: New York : Viking Press, 1977

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