Ceremony - Silko

On page 172 it says, “The white ranchers called this place North Top, but he remembered the story Josiah had told him about a hunter who walked into a grassy meadow up here and found a mountain-lion fun chasing butterflies; as long as the hunter sand a song to the cub, it continued to play. But when the hunter thought of the cubs mother and was afraid, the mountain lion cub was startled, and ran away. The Laguna people people had always hunted up there.” A recurring theme is Tayo turning back to nature or his traditional beliefs over his modern ones to find healing and the good life. Tayo remembers stories from his grandmother and Josiah and those would equate to his traditional native beliefs. For Tayo, these stories are more valuable than the science hes taught or white man's knowledge. While it’s important to not be ignorant to science and facts, I think there’s more to be learned looking at things in this way as well. This relates to SD by allowing us to remember the native peoples and the power in their stories. We must take and work with them and not dictate and tell them what is best for them.

Question: is there merit in taking a story over traditional beliefs or what you are taught in school?

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