Word: lagunas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Before receiving her award, Silko was an assistant professor of English at the University of Arizona. "I was sliding into despair. I might have thrown in the towel," she says. "Teaching just didn't give me the time I need for writing." Silko, who is a Laguna Pueblo Indian, now lives with her two sons on a small ranch in the Tucson Mountains. She has finished a screenplay, intended for public television, that is based on an Indian fable about an encounter with evil. She also reports "good progress" on her second novel, which retells the history...
...without significant input from the Laguna people themselves. Although the BIA must by law act in the best interest of the tribes whose land it holds in trust, the Bureau actually exposed the Lagunas to a host of health dangers...
...Laguna reservation used to be a quiet place. Traditions date back to the 12th century, when historians estimate the lagunas settled what we now call New Mexico. But the force of mine blasts has cracked the walls of adobe structures built hundreds of years age. A yellow could of radioactive dust bangs over the reservation, and dust has spread throughout living areas. Inattention to safety levels and elimination began with Anaconda continued when ARCO took curt the company, though the mines also brought money (the Lagunas have never disclosed how much) and improved the education level and the proportion...
...Lagunas, income from the mine has dried up; and the chance of their being able to restart the mine for profit in the sagging uranium market is slim. Without their primary source of income. Laguna officials cannot provide service for their citizens--who, as in other Indian communities, suffer from drug and alcohol abuse and a leenage suicide rate three times the national average...
...partially explicable by the town's lack of night life. The volunteers, from the mostly middle-aged women who do the men's makeup (their yellow T shirts read: WE KNOW WHERE TO PUT IT) to the lowliest errand boys, are plainly basking in the glory of Laguna's premiere event. Says Judy Stanton, 46, who for 13 years has rushed 50 miles from her nursing job in Downey to take part in the pageant: "I never get sick of it. There are new pictures every year. You see old friends and meet new people." Volunteer Jackie...