Leslie Marmon Silko's CEREMONY Describes American Indian Rituals to Heal Returning Soldiers

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Leslie Marmon Silko got the MacArthur Genius Award in 1981. Her brilliant novel CEREMONY (1977) weaves stories of Pueblo life, uranium mining,her own Laguna Pueblo, American Indian World War II and Viet Nam War veterans and Pueblo and Navajo ceremony, into a novel that is easily one of the 5 best of all time.
More at - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_Marmon_Silko

CEREMONY has vivid descriptions of American Indian rituals that reintergrate returning soldiers back into the community. Silko illuminates the central position of respect American Indian veterans and soldiers hold in tribal communities across the Americas.

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for Memorial Day 2008 in honor of all the American Indian veterans and soldiers across Indian Country with gratitude for their bravery, service and dedication to protecting our people and land for tens of thousands of years since way before 1492.
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