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Overview of Silko's "The Man to Send Rain clouds"
Leslie Marmon Silko's short story "The Man to Send Rain clouds" shows the
differences between organized religion and the beliefs of the Native American people in a
way that most would not be able. Arguing that the relationship between Native American
and Mexican American cultures has often been ignored but these practices are evident in
the fiction of Leslie Marmon Silko.
Born 1948 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, of mixed ancestry - by her own description
Laguna, Pueblo, Mexican, and white - Leslie Marmon Silko grew up on the Laguna
Pueblo Reservation, where members of her family had lived for generations, and where
she learned traditional stories and legends from female relatives. Silko's first published
book is the collection of poems Laguna Woman (1974) which draws richly upon her
tribal ancestry (Abcarian 1568.) Silko writes, "You don't have anything if you don't have
the stories" (Mitchell 28). While still......

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