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    Tayo, a Native American veteran, returns from WWII with post-traumatic stress disorder. The document analyzes Leslie Marmon Silko's novel Ceremony, which tells Tayo's story. It describes how Tayo's sickness is a result of the distortion of Native American relationships and traditions by Western ideology. Tayo undergoes a healing ceremony guided by an elder that blends traditional Laguna stories with his wartime experiences. Through this hybrid ceremony and by reconnecting with the earth and spirituality, Tayo is able to be cured of his sickness.

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    Tayo, a Native American veteran, returns from WWII with post-traumatic stress disorder. The document analyzes Leslie Marmon Silko's novel Ceremony, which tells Tayo's story. It describes how Tayo's sickness is a result of the distortion of Native American relationships and traditions by Western ideology. Tayo undergoes a healing ceremony guided by an elder that blends traditional Laguna stories with his wartime experiences. Through this hybrid ceremony and by reconnecting with the earth and spirituality, Tayo is able to be cured of his sickness.

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    WESTERN SICKNESS AND

    NATIVE AMERICAN CURE IN


    LESLIE MARMON SILKOS
    CEREMONY
    Katie Huguelet

    Ceremony

    by Leslie Marmon Silko

    Written by a Native American female author and


    published in 1977
    The protagonist:
    Tayo- returns from WWII with post traumatic stress disorder

    Other Characters:
    Rocky- Tayos brother who is fully assimilated into white culture
    and contrasts Native American beliefs
    Old Betonie- a medicine doctor that tells Tayo the pattern of his
    curing ceremony
    Tseh- an earthly female figure who reconnects Tayo with the land

    Background to Ceremony
    Genre: Laguna Pueblo and Navajo Indians
    Literary Terms: Hybridity, Opposition, Poetry, Prose

    Thesis:
    The cure to Tayos sickness is an inclusive
    ceremony open to both Eurocentric and
    Laguna peoples because it evokes a new
    sense of spirituality into Western ideology
    while revising traditional Laguna stories.

    Eurocentric Sickness
    Distortion of Relationships
    Tayo nodded, slapped at the insects mechanically and staring
    straight ahead, past the smothering dampness of the green
    jungles leaves (Silko 7).

    Distortion of Space and Time


    Tayo stood there, stiff with nausea, while they fired at the
    soldiers, and he watched his uncle fall, and he knew it was
    Josiah; and even after Rocky started shaking him by the
    shoulders and telling him to stop crying, it was still Josiah lying
    there (Silko 7).

    The Uranium Mine


    He cried the relief he felt at finally seeing
    the pattern, the way all the stories fit
    together- the old stories, the war stories, their
    storiesHe had only seen and heard the
    world as it was: no boundaries only transitions
    through all distances and time (Silko 229).

    Tayos Cure
    Tseh
    She was standing under an apricot tree, partially hidden by a bushy
    canopy of gnarled limbs sweeping so close to the earth the slender
    leaves touched the ground in the wind (Silko 164).
    dreams that lasted all night, dreams full of warm deep caressing and
    lingering desire which left him sleeping peacefully until dawn (Silko
    200)
    Critic Reyes Garcia: Tayo learns through this womans flesh to feel his
    own connectedness, so that the place bears her presence in his
    remembering their time together, the space of memory sensual and
    earthen (41).

    The Readers Cure


    She explicitly states in Ceremony, His
    sickness was only part of something larger,
    and his cure would be found in something
    great and inclusive of everything (116).

    The Readers Cure and critic


    James Ruppert
    Tayo and the reader have begun to live
    the myth and as, Eliade concludes, by
    living the myths one emerges from
    profane, chronological time and enters a
    time that is of a different quality, a Sacred
    Time at once primordial and indefinitely
    recoverable (Ruppert 182).

    Conclusion
    The reader performs the cure ceremony
    when experiencing the fragmented prose and
    Native American oral tradition which evokes
    the possibility of regaining spirituality in the
    environment and restoring the web of
    interconnectedness.

    Works Cited
    Garca, Reyes. "Senses of Place in Ceremony." MELUS 10.4, The Ethnic-Novel:
    Appalachian, Chicano, Chinese and Native American (1983): 37-48. JSTOR. Web.
    17 Sept. 2015.
    Ruppert, James. No Boundaries, Only Transitions: Ceremony. Mediation in
    Contemporary Native American Fiction. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press,
    1995. 74-91.
    Silko, Leslie Marmon. Ceremony. New York, NY: Penguin, 1986. Print.

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