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Silko’s incorporation of many voices and stories into what Krupat calls “Native American autobiography in the dialogic mode” articulates the A THEORY OF BOARDING-SCHOOL LITERATURE 29 intricacy of contemporary Indian identity. Possessed of a repertoire of identity options that are woven into a web of creative expression, Silko forces the monologic voice of social evolutionary rhetoric into a dialogue. ”17 In doing so it derails the narrative of assimilationism. By demonstrating the continued presence and strength of Indian and Laguna identities in what she clearly understands as a post-boarding-school world, Leslie Silko’s storytelling substantiates that Indian boarding-school students like Grandma A’mooh, Aunt Susie, Grandpa Hank, the contemporary Yellow Woman, the Yupik woman, and many others did not undergo an absolute metamorphosis; they did not replace their tribal culture with what they learned at school.

Silko’s repertoire, as demonstrated through her stories, not only includes “Laguna, Mexican, and white” identities but also, in the title piece of the collection, the story of a Yupik woman living in a small Alaskan settlement. The story recounts the woman’s development into a storyteller who comes to recognize her role in the community and her place in the ongoing narratives that structure and create her reality. The protagonist is a former boarding-school student, who chose to attend school “because she was curious about the big school where the Government sent all the other girls and boys” (Storyteller, 19).

I had been hearing her say/ ‘a’moo’ooh’/ which is the Laguna expression of endearment/ for a young child/ spoken with great feeling and love” (Storyteller, 33–34). Silko identifies Grandma A’mooh, then, with nurturing children and speaking to them in the Keres language. 9 She washes her hair with yucca root and informs the young Silko that this will keep white hair from yellowing; she makes red chili “on the grinding stone/ the old way, even though it had gotten difficult for her”; most important, she tells stories about her youth and about tribal customs and history (34).

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