Leslie Marmon Silko, one of America's best known Native authors, was born in 1948 and grew up at Laguna Pueblo, New Mexico, of mixed Laguna, Mexican, and white ancestry. Her early short stories, poems, and brilliant first novel Ceremony (1977) earned her recognition as...
Selects sixteen of Silko's interviews showing how the oral traditions, the communal relationships, & the desert landscape have become her inspirations.