Tayo thinks back to his return from the Veteran’s Hospital in Los Angeles where he felt like a white spirit and couldn’t keep any food down. Tayo tells a story about Corn Woman scolding her sister, Reed Woman, who then takes the rain away in her anger. The ranch where Tayo lives in New Mexico, unlike the wet Philippines, is suffering from a drought that came because, Tayo believes, he prayed for the rain to stop while he was in the jungle during the war. One memory in particular bothers Tayo – he was unable to execute a Japanese soldier in the Philippines during World War II because he saw his Uncle Josiah in the Japanese uniform.
Tayo, a Pueblo man, wakes up in his spare ranch house, dreaming deliriously of different scenes from his life. Stories are the only way to fight off illness and death and stand up to evil. Urn:oclc:802069885 Scandate 20100601140558 Scanner scribe8.la.archive.The novel opens by describing Ts’its’tsi’nako, the Thought-Woman, who is telling this entire story. OL2004614W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 92.39 Pages 280 Ppi 400 Related-external-id urn:isbn:0451098749
Urn:lcp:ceremony00silk:epub:ddf318bc-ea8c-45d7-9e1e-e2ed920a0a3f Extramarc University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (PZ) Foldoutcount 0 Identifier ceremony00silk Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t2q539356 Isbn 0140086838ħ6046936 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Openlibrary OL2538273M Openlibrary_edition Drawn to his Indian past and its traditions, his search for comfort and resolution becomes a ritual-a curative ceremony that defeats his despairĪccess-restricted-item true Addeddate 21:05:09 Bookplateleaf 0002 Boxid IA110716 Camera Canon 5D City New York, N.Y. "Demanding but confident and beautifully written" (Boston Globe), this is the story of a young Native American returning to his reservation after surviving the horrors of captivity as a prisoner of the Japanese during World War II. The search itself becomes a ritual, a curative ceremny that defeats the most virulent of afflictions-despair. Tayo's quest leads him back to the Indian past and its traditions, to beliefs about witchcraft and evil, and to the ancient stories of his people.
While other returning soldiers find easy refuge in alcohol and senseless violence, Tayo searches for another kind of comfort and resolution. His return to the Laguna Pueblo reservation only increases his feeling of estrangement and alienation. Tayo, a young Native American, has been a prisoner of the Japanese during World War II, and the horrors of captivity have almost eroded his will to survive. This story, set on an Indian reservation just after World War II, concerns the return home of a war-weary Laguna Pueblo young man. Originally published: New York : Viking Press, 1977
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