...frame of reference on Momaday's work. Storytelling as Communal Survival: Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony They are all we have, you see, all we have to fight...you don't have the stories. — Leslie Marmon Silko, Ceremony The publication of Ceremony in 1977 can be considered a milestone for Native American literature....

...I will tell you something about stories, [he said] They aren't just entertainment. Don't be fooled. They are all we have, you see, all we have to fight...don't have anything if you don't have the stories. 3 I am the son of my father, my grandfathers, and I have a story to tell about my history ... . 4 Were...

...I will tell you something about stories, [he said] They aren't just entertainment. Don't be fooled. They are all we have, you see, all we have to fight off illness and death. (2) As the book opens, Tayo is suffering mentally and physically from the ravages of the war. Tayo's...

...chants: I will tell you something about stories . . . They aren't just entertainment. Don't be fooled. They are all we have, you see, all we have to fight off illness and death. (2) In the following pages I will display some of the ideological implications of ceremonial repetition...

...will tell you something about stories, / . . . They aren't just entertainment. / Don't be fooled. / They are all we have, you see, / all we have to fight off / illness and death. "He," possibly an anonymous clan elder, defines the role and significance of the story we are about...

...wide number of variations. Silko writes of the very tangible reality that the mythic stories evoke: "They are all we have, you see, all we have to fight...don't have anything if you don't have the stories" (Ceremony 2). It is clear that in contemporary Native American literature the reality evoked is at...

...sources of identity), undermines the interests most acutely set forth in the Prologue's admonishment: "They are all we have, you see, all we have to fight off illness and death."36 lust as the Prologue simultaneously posits and effaces the antagonism between the competing...

...writes, "I will tell you something about stories. ... They aren't just entertainment. Don't be fooled. They are all we have, you see, all we have to fight...don't have anything if you don't have the stories." The stories of journeys and names are referents for a mixture of real, imagined, and symbolic experiences....

...will tell you something about stories," he said, "they aren't just entertainment. Don't be fooled. They are all we have, you see, all we have to fight off illness and 40 death. You don't have anything if you don't have your stories. Their evil is mighty but it can't...

...and the residential schools stole our language. As Leslie Marmon Silko writes in Ceremony, stories "are all we have, you see — all we have to fight off illness and death." As a storyteller I was once advised by an elder that there is a season for storytelling — winter....