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The powers who controlled the United States didn't want the people to know their history. If the people knew their history, they would realize they must rise up. (Part Three, Book Two: Arizona)

— Leslie Marmon Silko Almanac of the Dead (1991)

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And in the belly of this story
the rituals and the ceremony
are still growing.

"Anybody can act violently - there is nothing to it; but not every person is able to destroy his enemy with words." (p222)

Storyteller (1981)

...as I tell the story
it will begin to happen...

Ceremony (1977)

I think what writers, storytellers, and poets have to say necessarily goes beyond such trivial boundaries as origin.

collected in Conversations with Leslie Marmon Silko (1976)

This book is dedicated to the storytellers
as far back as memory goes and to the telling
which continues and through which they all live
and we with them.

Storyteller (1981)

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