storyteller

First published in 1981, blends original short stories and poetry influenced by the traditional oral tales that she heard growing up on the Laguna Pueblo in New Mexico with autobiographical passages, folktales, family memories, and photographs. As she mixes traditional and Western literary genres, Silko examines themes of memory, alienation, power, and identity; communicates Native American notions regarding time, nature, and spirituality; and explores how stories and storytelling shape people and communities. Storyteller illustrates how one can frame collective cultural identity in contemporary literary forms, as well as illuminates the importance of myth, oral tradition, and ritual in Silko’s own work.

Molded in the Image of Changing Woman: Navajo Views on the Human Body and Personhood

This book focuses on the complex interweaving of the cosmological, social, and bodily realms that Navajo people navigate.

The Way to Rainy Mountain

There is a turning and returning of myth, history, and memoir throughout, a narrative wheel that is as sacred as language itself.” – N. Scott Momaday

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

Determined to take his future into his own hands, Junior leaves his troubled school on the rez to attend an all-white high school where the only other Indian is the school mascot.

Me and Mine

An energetic Hopi woman emerges from a traditional family background to embrace the more conventional way of life in American today.

Ceremony

Thirty years since its original publication, Ceremony remains one of the most profound and moving works of Native American literature, a novel that is itself a ceremony of healing.

A Navajo Legacy

Holiday describes how, at an early age, he began an apprenticeship with his grandfather to learn the Blessing Way ceremony.

Reclaiming Dine History

A thought-provoking examination of the construction of Dine history that underlines the dichotomy between Navajo and non-Navajo perspectives on the past.

No Turning Back

Throughout her life this remarkable woman has held to the best in Hopi culture and has fought to maintain it in the lives of her students.

Sun Chief: The Autobiography of a Hopi Indian

First published in 1942, Sun Chief is the autobiography of Hopi Chief Don C. Talayesva and offers a unique insider view on Hopi society.