leslie marmon silko , ceremony (1977)
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Leslie Marmon Silko, Ceremony (1977)
Benjamin West, The Treaty of Penn with the Indians (1771-2)
Storytelling
• Centrality of stories to Native culture• Oral tradition: adaptation and
inheritance• Fragments of larger story
not Western tradition of self-contained narratives• Interrelationship of people, land, and
history
2013 study of alcohol abuse in USA. Today, 13% of deaths among Native Americans are alcohol related.
Quotes from Ceremony
“medicine for tight bellies and choked-up throats” (p37) “They blamed liquor and they blamed the war”(p49)
“Reports note that since the Second World War a pattern of drinking and violence, not previously seen before, is emerging among Indian veterans” (p49)________________________
Emily Vincent
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