Chronology of Silko's Ceremony

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aaaaa) Ts'its'tsi'nako creates Nau'ts'ity'i and I'tcts'ity'i.
aaaa) Together Spider-Woman and her two sisters create the world through their stories.
aaa) "I'm telling you the story she is thinking."
aa) Sunrise

a) Tayo is born.
b) Tayo is with his mother in Gallup, N.M, where she drinks, lives in a shack and earns money as a prostitute.
c) Tayo is left with his Aunt by his mother who then runs off and disappears.
d) Tayo grows up with Rocky, under his Auntie's, as well as Josaiah's, tutelage.
e) Rocky and Tayo volunteer for the army during WWII. Auntie gives Tayo the task of looking after Rocky.
f) They are in basic training on the pacific coast.
g) They fight in the pacific theater; Tayo cannot fire directly at the Japanese troops because he sees the face of Josiah.
h) Rocky and Tayo are captured. Tayo is incapable of keeping Rocky from being beaten to death. Tayo prays for no rain.
i) During this time, uranium is mined, atomic bombs are built and tested near the Pueblo reservation. Old Grandma sees the flash of the first atomic explosion.
j) Hiroshima and Nagasaki. People evaporate and leave their shadows.
k) Tayo returns to the United States.
l) Tayo is in a mental hospital on the pacific coast.
m) Tayo returns broken to the reservations; there is a drought.
n) Tayo engages in a life of drunken mayhem. He hangs out with Harley, Emo and Leroy.
o) Tayo is brought to Ku'oosh for a traditional healing ceremony that fails. Ku'oosh asks for Tayo's insights.
p) Tayo is brought to Betonie for a new sort of traditional healing ceremony.
q) Tayo goes on a quest for Josaiah's cattle.
r) Tayo retreats into the mountains where he meets T'seh from the Montaño family.
s) He finds and repaints a'moo'ooh, the elk.
t) Robert comes and warns them about Emo.
u) Emo, Harley and Pinkie go looking for Tayo, capture him and then lose him. They intend to discredit him and turn him over to white authorities.
v) Emo, Harley and Leroy follow Tayo to an abandoned uranium mine.
w) Harley is sacrificed by Emo, while Tayo looks on.
x) Emo kills Pinkie "accidently."
y) Emo flees for California.
z) Tayo becomes a respected member of his community.

zz) Old Grandma: "It seems like I already heard these stories before...only thing is, the names sound different."
zzz) Sunrise.

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