"The most effective political statement I could make is in my art work. . . . The most radical kind of politics is language as plain truth."
Leslie Marmon Silko, one of America's best known Native authors, was born in 1948 and grew up at Laguna Pueblo, New Mexico, of mixed Laguna, Mexican, and white ancestry. Her early short stories, poems, and brilliant first novel Ceremony (1977) earned... (read more)