Further Reading

Question 1

Leslie Marmon Silko (4)

Answer 1

Everyone wants to fall in and draw lines and exclude. A lot of that’s been internalized

The old prophecies say, not that the Europeans will disappear, but the purely European way of looking at this place and relationships

Think of time as an ocean always moving

There is some yearning, some longing, we know that we are part of the trees, and the earth, and the water

Question 2

Robert M Nelson (2)

Answer 2

Native American novels can be read as more extended explorations of the process of discovering, or recovering, such an identity…challenges some of the truisms about the nature of fiction itself

finding ways sometimes…to live with the land, holding and being held by the life that precedes and survives the life of any individual, as well

Question 3

Paula Gunn Allen (1)

The main point made by Native American writers

Answer 3

The relationship is more one of identity, in the mathematical sense, than of affinity.

Question 4

Suzanne M Austgen (1)

Silko demonstrates in Ceremony that the ‘key to survival’ is…

Answer 4

Found in allowing native Pueblo ceremonies to change to meet the present day realities of reservation life. It is in the fusion of old and new that the Pueblos can find the healing they so badly need