Laguna Pueblo

Nationwide Misrepresentation of Native Americans: Politically and Historically Explained As a nationwide problem in the United States, Native Americans are widely misrepresented and misidentified as a group and race of people. Both in the past and in the present, Native Americans have been looked upon as people as well as an ethnical group. Native Americans often have a lower social status in the United States, they are often looked at as people who are exceedingly poor, have many health…

Throughout Leslie Marmon Silko’s work Ceremony, there are many integral themes. The story focuses on Tayo, a World War II veteran, who is traumatized by his experience over the course of the time he spent on the battle front. He views his cousin, Rocky, being killed, and this loss to him wounds him greatly, both physically and mentally. His family idolized Rocky, from Tayo’s point of view, because, I argue, Rocky seemed to be a successful Native American, and Tayo was just not as successful as…

The quality of life is spiraling down due to health problems related to alcohol, such as fetal alcohol syndrome. Fetal alcohol syndrome can also affect two in every thousand babies born in some reserves, leaving them with a lifetime of developmental and neurological disorders. Education and treatment are valuable tools to assist in the road to recovery from addiction to alcohol. They are also required for families, communities and other social supports. Alcoholism is an addiction and genetically…

deep, still red colored scar across his face from his right eye to his mouth. He keeps saying that it came from the border patrol. Which I doubt but who was I to question him? He slows down and runs at my pace, “Estas segura? Podemos regresar a tu pueblo.” I frown at how he’s not taking me seriously. “Estoy segura. Quiero ir con ustedes.” Why would I return back to Oaxaca? Everybody has done this. Some come back and others abandon their families. I wasn’t doing this for my family. They…

thinking, behaving, or working that exists in place or organization. In one of the essays read in class called “Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit,” was about the Laguna Tribe and how their culture viewed the woman as the ruler or were superior. These women were tuff according to Silko. They were the ones that were working on the Pueblo building adobe houses. That sounds like something the men should be doing. But in this culture the men were basket making and taking care of the kids. Other…