Ceremony

About Ceremony

Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony (1977) follows Tayo, a half-Laguna Pueblo veteran who returns from the Second World War shattered and unable to re-enter the world of the Laguna pueblo, and his long healing through traditional ceremony and the guidance of a medicine man named Betonie. The foundational novel of the Native American literary renaissance and one of the most important American novels of the twentieth century.