Western vs Pueblo medicine

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This paper looks at the novel "Ceremonies," by Leslie Marmon Silko, and at the culture of the Pueblo Indians. The paper reviews the story, explaining that it is about a young half Caucasian/half Indian man returning after World War II suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, and not being able to find answers in either Western or traditional Pueblo medicine.

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"Silko's "Ceremony" is the story of a Tayo a half Caucasian, half Native American from the Laguna Pueblo Reservation in New Mexico and his struggles with post-traumatic stress disorder on his return from World War II. He has survived being held as a prisoner of war by the Japanese and is suffering the physical and mental effects of this captivity and this is compounded by the added pressures of bi-culturalism tearing him between the Native American world and the white world. Throughout the novel, Silko introduces the..."

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