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 regarded...

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 novel...

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 c...

Growl! Groan! The noises startled me from a sound sleep. In a single motion I sat straight up in my sleeping bag. "A bear," I thought. "Outside the tent!" The sign at the entrance to the campground had read: CAUTION....

THE COUNTRY BEARS Quality: * * * * Acceptability: +3 RATING: G STARRING: Haley Joel Osment (voice only), Christopher Walken, Stephen Tobolowsky, Daryl "Chill" Mitchell, Diedrich Bader, Alex Rocco, Meagan Fay, Eli Marienthal, and the voices of Kevin Michael Richardson, James Gammon,...