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This is a 5 page paper discussing the process of healing of the character Tayo in the novel “Ceremony” by Leslie Marmon Silko. Through Tayo’s interactions with three of main characters in the novel, namely Ku’oosh, Montano and Betonie, Tayo is able to understand that not only do the white man medicines not work on Tayo but neither do the traditional healing ceremonies work on the modern Pueblo Indian as demonstrated by Ku’oosh. Montano teaches Tayo the power of natural elements in his healing process but it is not until Tayo meets Betonie, the modern day medicine man does he realize that it is the fusion of traditional and modern day elements that make the strongest healing regimen.
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of them. Kuoosh, the traditional medicine man is unable to help Tayo in his traditional healing ceremony and finds that since the entry of the white man into their world
he has a difficult time combating all the elements of witchery. Tayo has already been told by the white doctors in the VA hospital that they were unable to help
him in his state of post-traumatic shock from World War II. Tayo continues to search for a cure however and he encounters a woman, Montano, who shows him the traditional
ceremonies of ritual offering and the healing power of the natural elements around them. Tayo does not succeed in the healing process however until he meets the modern day medicine
man of Betonie who, like Tayo, is a half breed. Betonie shows Tayo that a mixture of the traditional ways and modern elements can be the strongest in the modern
healing ceremony and it is the acceptance that the fusion of the two cultures is the strongest which leads Tayo ultimately to the acceptance of his own self-identity and self-healing.
Leslie Marmon Silkos novel "Ceremony" tells of the state of the Laguna reservation after World War II. The land has been damaged by the infiltration of a nearby uranium mine
and a generation of the Pueblo men have been damaged by their participation in the war (Austgen). While Tayo and his two friends, Rocky and Emo, decide that they can
participate in the white mans world, all three meet with devasting results. Rocky is killed during the fighting with the Japanese, Emo becomes an alcoholic and Tayo returns with post-traumatic
stress syndrome and despite his stay in a VA hospital has not been able to be cured. During his heavy sedation of the white medicines, he returns to live with
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