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...fighting to keep her culture, and Hattie, fed up with her own, form an uneasy bond. No matter how many new worlds Hattie takes the girl to, Indigo longs to return to the tribal gardens in the dunes. The plot undergoes some awkward twists to accommodate that wish, but Silko has crafted a dreamlike tale out of one of the ugliest realities in American history...
...uses the young couple's thwarted desire as a metaphor for the unfulfilled longings of a whole culture. The suffering Justine and her family endure as they try to integrate themselves into American life is unrelenting. And yet the show escapes the polemical feel of works by Leslie Marmon Silko and other chroniclers of Native American life. Haunting and superbly acted, Grand Avenue could give the TV movie a good name...
Panelists include writers Leslie Marmon Silko, Linda Hogan, Beth Brant and M. Annette Jaimes...
...Silko is the grandmother of Native American women writers--she's been the major influence for almost all [of them]," Ackerberg said...
...Silko's award means more to her than sustenance. "It released something," she says. "It has given me ideas. When you have the luxury of time, it changes something inside. You're a little less beholden to the everyday world. And I don't have to put up with teaching Mickey Mouse undergraduates any more...