The Man to Send Rain Clouds In Leslie Marmon Silko's 1969 short story "The Man to Send Rain Clouds," two men find an elderly man below a cottonwood tree who has passed away and quietly transports him back to town where an Indian burial is given to the elderly man without the knowledge of the Catholic church. This story incorporates many different views of religion and culture such as Native American rituals and burials and the Catholic Church’s funerals and blessings. The primary characters in the story are Ken and Leon, the two men who find the elderly man and bring him back to town after wrapping him up in a red blanket.;, Louise, who is ultimately the reason the two cultures of Catholicism and Native American beliefs are mixed in to one
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Silko has gathered literary acclaim for "The Man to Send Rain Clouds," and has written and published many short stories and poems that have remained grounded in the history and culture of Laguna Pueblo. Silko, due to her mixed ancestry-Laguna Indian, Hispanic, and white- has stated," I am of mixed-breed ancestry, but what I know is Laguna," has made many of her literary works a way to preserve cultural traditions and understand and perceive a balance of Native American traditions …show more content…
Instead of franticly trying to find the best measures on how to deal with this situation, they proceed with a Native American ritual of some sort toon getting Teofilo ready. Even when the priest rides by in his car and questions as to whether or not Teofilo is found and doing well, Ken and Leon casually answer his questions with broad and general statements assuring the priest that everything was fine and nothing was out of the ordinary. This is to assume that in Native American culture, death is not perceived as a tragedy but as if it is a welcomed passage of enlightenment, as alike to the Catholicism's Heaven as it is, the two are purposely separated and perceived as different possibly due to the different rituals and ceremonies taken place during one's
Silko has gathered literary acclaim for "The Man to Send Rain Clouds," and has written and published many short stories and poems that have remained grounded in the history and culture of Laguna Pueblo. Silko, due to her mixed ancestry-Laguna Indian, Hispanic, and white- has stated," I am of mixed-breed ancestry, but what I know is Laguna," has made many of her literary works a way to preserve cultural traditions and understand and perceive a balance of Native American traditions …show more content…
Instead of franticly trying to find the best measures on how to deal with this situation, they proceed with a Native American ritual of some sort toon getting Teofilo ready. Even when the priest rides by in his car and questions as to whether or not Teofilo is found and doing well, Ken and Leon casually answer his questions with broad and general statements assuring the priest that everything was fine and nothing was out of the ordinary. This is to assume that in Native American culture, death is not perceived as a tragedy but as if it is a welcomed passage of enlightenment, as alike to the Catholicism's Heaven as it is, the two are purposely separated and perceived as different possibly due to the different rituals and ceremonies taken place during one's