Leslie Marmon Silko (The Sixties in America)

Early Life

Leslie Marmon Silko was raised in Laguna pueblo reservation in New Mexico by her parents and her father’s extended family. Her mother was of European and Cherokee ancestry; her father was of Laguna, Plains Indian, Mexican, and European ancestry. She has written that the search for identity as a half-breed is at the core of her works. Her family included a great-aunt, Aunt Susie, who taught Silko the stories of the Laguna oral tradition. Silko attended day school in Albuquerque from 1958 to 1964 and then the University of New Mexico, where she received a B.A. in...

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