Dec 4, 2008

The Man to Send Rainclouds | Author Biography

Silko is one of the major authors to emerge from the Native-American literary renaissance of the 1970s. Born in 1948 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, she grew up on the nearby Laguna Pueblo Reservation, where she was raised within a family of mixed Indian, Mexican, and white descent. Life on the reservation was a daily balancing act of Pueblo and Christian ways. Storytelling, or story-sharing, was an important part of Pueblo culture, and Silko grew up listening to stories of the Indians' struggles and their survival as a people. The stories lived on in her memory, and in later years she drew...