...Leslie Marmon Silko Poetry Foundation. “Leslie Marmon Silko.” Poetryfoundation.org. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/lesliemarmon-silko. 21, Sep. 2017. Leslie Marmon Silko was born in 1948 in New Mexico to a well-known photographer Lee Marmon and his wife Mary Virginia Leslie. She is mixed with Mexican and Anglo-American background. Leslie grew up on a reservation called Laguna Pueblo. She attended a school on her reservation until fifth grade, she then relocated to a Catholic school in Albuquerque. She was not allowed to speak her language but it never stopped her from becoming successive. She then went and got her Bachelor’s degree at University of New Mexico in 1969. The same year she printed her first story “The Man to Send Rain Clouds.” She attended law school for a short time but left to continue her writing in 1971. She won an award called the National Endowment for the Arts Discovery Grant in 1971. Leslie accomplished many things throughout her career. She was awarded a-lot throughout her years of writing including for the Pushcart Prize for poetry and the MacArthur “Genius” Award....
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...In Leslie Marmon Silko’s “The Man to Send Rain Clouds,” the Laguna Native American tribe finds itself in a spiritual quandary against the Roman Catholic Church. Some members of the local Native American tribe, Ken and Leon, are challenged when their grandfather, Teofilo, passes away. They come to a moral crossroads in the burial process, as to whether or not carry out their traditional tribal rituals, given they interfered with the new belief system that was being taught to them by the Catholic Church. They ultimately choose both burial strategies, but particular elements of a feather, a blanket, colors, and corn meal/pollen are used during the Native American burial process, and holy water was used for the Catholic Church process. It is clear that these elements hold symbolic value in the Laguna/Pueblo Native...
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...|[pic] |Syllabus | | |College of Humanities | | |ENG/125 Version 3 | | |Literature in Society | Copyright © 2010, 2008, 2006 by University of Phoenix. All rights reserved. Course Description This course introduces themes in literature and provides guided study and practice in reflecting on themes which describe the human experience across cultural and societal boundaries. The course includes readings from literature in different genres and cultures. Students study the literature in thematic units and are asked to make connections to their own lives and cultures. Policies Faculty and students/learners will be held responsible for understanding and adhering to all policies contained within the following two documents: • University policies: You must be logged into the student website to view this document. • Instructor policies: This document is posted in the Course Materials forum. University policies are subject to change. Be sure to read the policies...
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