Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony

Part I of Essay
“They fear They fear the world. They destroy what they fear. They fear themselves.” “They will kill the things they fear all the animals the people will starve.” “They will fear what they find They will fear the people They kill what they fear” (Silko 136). Lesl ....

Part II of Essay
.... feared an unknown language that they had never heard before and could not understand. They feared rituals and ceremonies that seemed strange and suspicious. They feared a social unity of sharing and togetherness that they found alarming and intimidating. The Indians woke up one morning to find that the lands they once belonged to were no longer theirs. The deeds and papers said the land now belonged to the white folk. It was taken away from them by sheer physical force, stolen, and they were sent away to live on reservations. Tayo wa ....