During the early 1970s -- the emergent years of what Kenneth Lincoln has called the "Native American Renaissance" -- Leslie Marmon Silko was perhaps the movement's preeminent writer of short fiction. She had also published a collection of highly...

Leslie Marmon Silko is one of the most important writers to emerge from the Native American Renaissance, a period of intense literary productivity by Native Americans that began with the 1968 publication of N. Scott Momaday's Pulitzer Prize-winning...

Despite that her most successful work is an early one, Leslie Marmon Silko remains a central voice in Native American literature. Her first novel, Ceremony (1977), is taught in colleges and universities around the world. Scholarship on her body of work...

Conversations with Leslie Marmon Silko Ellen L. Arnold, ed. Jackson. University Press of Mississippi. 2000. xvi + 200 pages. $45 ($18 paper) ISBN 1-57806-300-0 (301-9 paper) FOR THE LAGUNA Pueblo Indians in New Mexico, the sense of being within history and culture...

Running on the Edge of the Rainbow: Laguna Stories and Poems, a video film issued in 1978 by the University of Arizona as part of the series Native Literature from the American Southwest, features a combination of storytelling and poetry reading sessions interlaced...

In the following essay, Hirsch provides an in-depth examination of Leslie Marmon Silko's Storyteller, a collection of writings in several genres which, the critic suggests, constitutes a piece drawn from a vast, everregenerating Laguna Pueblo oral tradition.

In the following essay, Wallace discusses Silko's Ceremony and N. Scott Momaday's The Ancient Child and states that the novels "are attempts to articulate the survival of those people who are known as indians."

In the essay below, Krumholz describes Silko's attempts to engage non-Native American readers in Storyteller in order to inform their understanding of Laguna culture.

Leslie Marmon Silko uses the idea of being speckled, or spotless, in "Ceremony." To try to be spotless, the Laguna people try to become a part of white society, but that separates them from the Earth and from the roots, tradition, beliefs, rituals and customs of the Native American way. On the other hand, being speckled is learning and shifting with this clash of cultures for it not to interfere and destroy you.

In Storyteller, Leslie Marmon Silko provides us with tales passed down through generations of her Laguna tribe, as told to her by her aunt Susie. As in a game of telephone, these stories have undoubtedly changed over the years.