![]() ![]() Auntie, Tayo’s Christian grandmother, resents Tayo for his ethnic identity although she willingly raises him, but praises her own son Rocky for preferring science that was introduced by white teachers over Laguna narratives. ![]() While colonialism is a pressing matter in the novel, the Native American characters view white assimilation as something that they should esteem to be, exhibiting the despondent, embedded indoctrination. Revealing severe symptoms of PTSD, Tayo must return to his roots to recover from not only the war he had fought in, but the war within himself for being half-Native American and half-Mexican, a corporeal reminder of racial betrayal and perceived retrogression in his community. The novel begins with Tayo returning to the Laguna Pueblo reservation, where his family and friends live. ![]() ”Ĭentering on Tayo, a Native American soldier returning home from the shattering horror of World War II, Ceremony unveils the persistent reality of dual identity in modern America, implementing mental health as another prevalent but disregarded truth, a conduit for layered conversation. She taught me this above all else: things which don't grow are dead things. ![]() but only this growth keeps the ceremonies strong. “But long ago when the people were given these ceremonies, the changing began. Review by Yelisa Leiva, bookseller at Foggy Pine Books ![]()
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