Lullaby | About the Author
Leslie Marmon Silko was born on March 5, 1948, in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Raised on the Laguna Pueblo Reservation in northern New Mexico, Silko's cultural and ethnic heritage was a mix of Laguna Pueblo, Plains Indian, Mexican, and Anglo- American. She attended schools run by the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) and Catholic schools in Albuquerque. Also central to her education were several generations of women in her family, such as her grandmother and aunt, from whom she learned much about her cultural traditions. In 1969, Silko received her B. A. from the University of New Mexico, where...
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