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Leslie Marmon Silko, born in 1948, was raised in the Laguna Pueblo fifty miles west of Albuquerque.
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Leslie Marmon Silko, born in 1948, was raised in the Laguna Pueblo fifty miles west of Albuquerque. Her heritage was mixed; white, Mexican, and Native American. In an interview by Kathyrun Shanley, published in 'The Before Columbus Foundation Fiction Anthology', Silko said, "I grew up at Laguna Pueblo, I am of mixed breed ancestry, but what I know is Laguna. This place I am from is everything I am as a writer and a human being." As a child she grew up with her great grand mother, Maria Anaya. It was Maria Anaya who played such an influential role in Silko's life of storytelling and writing. The home Silko grew up in was one of the Marmon houses on the fringes of the Laguna Pueblo. Silko talked about her home in This Song Remembers, Self-Portraits of Native Americans in the Arts. She said, "I always thought there was something symbolic about...
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