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St. Andrew's article, "Healing The Witchery: Medicine in Silko's Ceremony," published in Arizona Quarterly, Vol. 44, No 1, offers an in-depth exploration of Pueblo cosmology. This piece is valuable for those interested in delving deeper into the novel's religious and cultural themes.
After a decade of effort, Silko released her second novel, Almanac of the Dead. This work is more explicitly political, capturing the hysteria of the 1980s regarding illegal immigration, drug trafficking, the CIA, and other issues. Similar to Ceremony, this novel intertwines legends with contemporary events as an ancient manuscript is reconstructed after being smuggled away from the book-burning Spaniards.
Silko addresses some inaccuracies about her own life and provides insights into her work in her collection of essays, Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit (1996). In this book, she shares her interest in photography, ancient codices, and historical events that have shaped her novels.
N. Scott Momaday's House Made of Dawn, published in 1968 and awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1969, emerged during a Native-American cultural resurgence and a period of renewed political rights assertion. The novel narrates the journey of a man returning to his Kiowa Pueblo after World War II.
A decade before Dee Brown's work and the broader reevaluation of Native Americans in the early 1970s, William Brandon offered a comprehensive overview of Native-American history with his book, Indians, published in 1961 as part of The American Heritage Library. Despite its brevity, the book is notable for its breadth and objectivity.
Ward Churchill's 1998 publication, A Little Matter of Genocide: Holocaust and Denial in the Americas 1492 to the Present, is his latest work chronicling his people's history. A Cherokee himself, Churchill has been a dedicated recorder of efforts to eliminate Native Americans. This book concentrates on attempts to conceal the genocide story.
A record of Native-American political activism during the 1970s has been compiled by Troy Johnson, Joane Nagel, and Duane Champagne, titled, American Indian Activism: Alcatraz to the Longest Walk.
Lumbee Indian David E. Wilkins examined how the U.S. Supreme Court has restricted Native American rights. His 1977 work, American Indian Sovereignty and the U.S. Supreme Court: The Masking of Justice, analyzes fifteen landmark cases for their impact on Indians and minority groups.
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