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Q & A.(SCENES AND SIGHTINGS FROM THE SMITHSONIAN MUSEUMS AND BEYOND)(Native American writer Leslie Marmon Silko)(Interview)(Brief article)

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| August 01, 2007 | Zax, David | COPYRIGHT 1984 Smithsonian Institution. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

LESLIE MARMON SILKO, whose groundbreaking novel Ceremony has just been rereleased in a 30th-anniversary edition, recently appeared at the National Museum of the American Indian. She spoke with the magazine's David Zax.

YOU ARE ARGUABLY THE FIRST NATIVE AMERICAN FEMALE NOVELIST. HOW HAVE THINGS CHANGED SINCE YOU PUBLISHED YOUR FIRST NOVEL IN 1977? When Ceremony was first published, it was considered "advanced," so that [only] graduate students would read it. Then pretty soon undergraduates were reading it, and now it's a book that the Ivy League colleges have on their lists of the books you're supposed to have read by your senior year [in high school]. So over time …

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