The role of the individual and their relationship with the community is an important thematic issue that is observed in the works of Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony and Barbara Kingsolver's Animal Dreams. ... Like Tayo in Ceremony, the protagonist of Animal Dreams undergoes a transformation through a journey. ... In Animal Dreams the theme of the individual versus the community is reflected in the isolation of both Codi and Doc Homer from their community, which is seen through the women, especially Doña Althea. ... Native American mythology is an integral aspect of Ceremony ...

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Together, Alex and Nadia will go through many challenges, most of which they never even dreamed of. ... I, however, thought it was enough that certain natives could use their mind to be invisible, and how in the eye of the world, you could see visions of your true animal self, but when the characters started visiting spirit worlds and talking with yetis that were keeping track of an entire civilization's history. ...

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Ruth Underhill rationalizes that both these groups also had little time to dream up cosmologies as hunters spent the majority of time on their own, away from groups, resulting in their "contact with the Supernaturals [to be a] solitary, personal vision, " while gatherers, who were a community that were able to share beliefs simply rationalized the pattern of associating their religion with what they needed most, therefore creating rituals for dates and times of the year that related to agriculture (15-16). The association of supernatural forces and nature in the Native American culture's ...

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In the nineteenth century, as white Americans proceeded to build and delineate their nation, they carried on a process they had started as colonists, settling a new world, and transforming its landscape, which had been modelled by Native Americans up to that time. Meanwhile, this landscape profoundly affected postcolonial United States. It was a time where one discovered complicated links between material conditions, ideology and power. It affected the physical context of the American environment and the changing experience of American life. The nineteenth century saw the con...

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