The Preservation of Identity in Ceremony: Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony.

Native American culture is based on the community, Laura's hatred affects the surrounding people. People's anger is concentrated in "girls and her family", but my aunt needs to repair a bad relationship between her family and the Laguna community. "The emotions are distorted ... The names of these growth sources are all under the English words, and they are buried in the unreachable area" (Silko 69). My aunt also said that "Peace does not exist and people will not rest before the intertwining is resolved", meaning that Laguna is losing herself in a white culture (Silko 69).

Identity Protection in the Ceremony Leslie Marmon For Silko's ritual's role, the concept of change and identity is problematic. Tayo's combination represents everything Laguna people are concerned about. The advent of change and cultural integration has brought a devastating threat to the indigenous traditions of the Americans. Although their complex heritage rejected him, Tayo's journey was not his own journey but a continuation of the tradition of depicting the story of Native American culture. Through tradition, he learned to use his white and Mexican tradition to show himself without giving up his native American customs.

As an important person in the Native American Renaissance, Leslie Marmon Silco combines stories and rituals to form a story of cultural resistance and identity. After returning home from the Second World War, Tayo, the hero of the ceremony, experienced post-traumatic stress disorder just because his mixed identity was more complicated. Throughout his life Tayo's treatment tour, Silko imitates Native American ceremonies and regains the power of indigenous identities.

In the evolving traditional novel "Ceremony", Leslie Marmon Silko wrote an article about Indian veterans and his struggle to cope with the pressure of war. By the early stages of the novel, Cirque revealed some rituals performed by the Laguna Indians. One of these traditions is a ritual experience that they experience after searching for animals to express their appreciation for animals, in this case a deer. Other Laguna traditions include rain drafts during the draft and various other rituals. After returning from war to the traditional medical scientist, Kuosh tried to heal Tayo's war, but his warrior ceremony was outdated and failed. So he introduced him to another medical scientist, Bethney.