Ceremony (1977)Leslie Marmon Silko

“White Man’s Moccasins” (1954) by Lee Marmon

North America, Pre-1492

Pueblo of the Laguna (“Kawaik”)

Native American Renaissance, 1960s-70s

• Momaday wins Pulitzer (1969)• Red Power Movement • American Indian Movement• Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (1970)• “Trail of Broken Treaties” (1972)• Indian Self-Determination and Education

Assistance Act (1975)• Silko, Vizenor, Welch, Harjo, Ortiz, Erdrich

Custer Died for Your Sins, 1969 Black Elk Speaks (1932, repr. 1961)

Anti-mining poster, 2013

“It happened again and again, and the people had to watch, unable to save or protect any of the things that were so important to them.” (Ceremony, 203)

“It seems like I already heard these stories before. . .only thing is, the names sound different.”

(Ceremony, 260)